Observing the Scribe at Work : Scribal Practice in the Ancient World (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta)

Ast, R. (EDT)/ Choat, M. (EDT)/ Cromwell, J. (EDT)

Peeters Publishers（2021/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 360 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789042942868

Full Description

Scribes are paradoxically both central and invisible in most societies
before the typographic revolution of the 15th century, witnessed by
every manuscript, but often elusive as historical figures. The act of
writing is a quotidian and vernacular practice as well as a literary
one, and must be observed not only in the outputs of literary copyists
or reports of their activities, but in the documents of everyday life.
This volume collects contributions on scribal practice as it features on
diverse media (including papyri, tablets, and inscriptions) in a range
of ancient societies, from the Ancient Near East and Dynastic Egypt
through the Graeco-Roman world to Byzantium. These discussions of the
role and place of scribes and scribal activity in pre-typographic
cultures both contribute to a better understanding of one of the key
drivers of these cultures, and illuminate the transmission of knowledge
and traditions within and between them.