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Documentality - New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature (Hardcover)
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Documentality - New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and
literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire.
Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in
classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the
imaginative and sociological dimensions of the ancient document.
Individual chapters investigate the definition of the document in
ancient thought, and how modern understandings of documentation may
(mis)shape scholarly approaches to documentary sources in
antiquity. Contributors reexamine familiar categories of ancient
documents through the lenses of perception and function, and reveal
where the modern understanding of the document departs from ancient
conceptions of documentation. The boundary between literary genres
and documentary genres of writing appears more fluid than prior
scholarship had allowed. Compared to modern audiences, inhabitants
of the Roman Empire used a more diverse range of both non-textual
and textual forms of documentation, and they did so with a more
active, questioning attitude. The interdisciplinary approach to the
"mentality" of documentation in this volume advances beyond
standard discussions of form, genre, and style to revisit the
document through the eyes of Greco-Roman readers and viewers.
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