| Description |
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (iv, 133 pages).) |
| Series |
Materiale Textkulturen, 2198-6932 ; Band 8 |
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Materiale Textkulturen ; Bd. 8.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Communication and Materiality – Communicative Strategies of Ruling Elites from 3000 BCE through 1500 CE -- Bibliography -- Spreading the Royal Word: The (Im)Materiality of Communication in Early Mesopotamia / Tsouparopoulou, Christina -- Linear B Administration: The Communicative Aspects of Written Media and the Organisation of the Mycenaean Bureaucracy / Karagianni, Angeliki -- Materiality and Reality of the Communication of Divine Will in the Sargonid Period / Wilhelmi, Lisa -- utā pavastāyā utā carmā grftam āha–Written on Clay and Parchment: Old Persian Writing and Allography in Iranian / Fear, Douglas -- Charters, Pitchforks, and Green Seals / Mauntel, Christoph -- The Textile Performance of the Written Word: Islamic Robes of Honour (khilaʿ) / Sauer, Rebecca -- Postscript / Sauer, Rebecca -- Notes on Contributors |
| Summary |
This volume reconsiders literacy and communication in pre-modern societies, focusing especially on how material form affects the way textual artefacts are understood and interpreted. By bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines such as archaeology, medieval studies, and Islamic studies, this volume provides the specialist and non-specialist with insights on how humans express themselves through writing and material culture |
| Analysis |
Communication, Literacy, Materiality, Material Culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Archaeology.
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archaeology.
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HISTORY / Ancient / General.
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Archaeology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sauer, Rebecca.
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| LC no. |
2015028565 |
| ISBN |
311037174X |
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9783110371741 |
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3110371758 |
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9783110371758 |
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9783110413007 |
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3110413000 |
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