Approaches to the history of written culture : a world inscribed / Martyn Lyons, Rita Marquilhas, ed...
Approaches to the history of written culture : a world inscribed / Martyn Lyons, Rita Marquilhas, ed...
Approaches to the history of written culture : a world inscribed / Martyn Lyons, Rita Marquilhas, editors.
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Cham, Switzerland : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2017]
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G 2018/1738
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English
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Physical content
ix, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
still image
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
A World Inscribed : Introduction / Martyn Lyons and Rita Marquilhas -- The Babylonian Scribes and Their Libraries / Francis Joannès -- Writings in the Korean Han'gŭl Script by and for the Women of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) / SeoKyung Han -- Paper World : The Materiality of Loss in the Pre-Modern...
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Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2017]
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or 'ordinary' writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of 'pre-literate' societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access...
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Approaches to the history of written culture : a world inscribed / Martyn Lyons, Rita Marquilhas, editors.
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New directions in book history
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/1738
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74VKVG5oLJLX
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ISBN
9783319541358
DDC
002.09
MMS ID
991024156818002626
