Dynamic Epigraphy - New Approaches to Inscriptions (Paperback)

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to 'shake up' how we deal with inscriptions. Broad themes include the embodied experience of epigraphy, the unique capacities of epigraphic language as a genre, the visuality of inscriptions and the interplay of inscriptions with literary texts. Although each chapter focuses on specific objects and epigraphic landscapes, ranging from Republican Rome to early modern Scotland, the emphasis here is on using these case studies not as an end in themselves, but as a means of exploring broader methodological and theoretical issues to do with how we use inscriptions as evidence, both for the Greco-Roman world and for other time periods. Drawing on conversations from fields such as archaeology and anthropology, philology, art history, linguistics and history, contributors also seek to push the boundaries of epigraphy as a discipline and to demonstrate the analytical fruits of interdisciplinary approaches to inscribed material. Methodologies such as phenomenology, translingualism, intertextuality and critical fabulation are deployed to offer new perspectives on the social functions of inscriptions as texts and objects and to open up new horizons for the use of inscriptions as evidence for past societies.

General

Imprint:	Oxbow Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2022
Editors:	Eleri H. Cousins
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-78925-789-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Palaeography Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Prehistoric archaeology Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Classical Greek & Roman archaeology Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	1-78925-789-1
Barcode:	9781789257892

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