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Texts and Textiles in the Ancient World: Materiality -
Representation - Episteme - Metapoetics presents 12 papers arranged
under the four headings of the title which focus on the process of
textile manufacture, the weaving process itself, and the
materiality of fabric. Contributions adddress the problematic
issues of cognitive archaeology, consumer research, literary theory
and themes addressing both philosophical history and the history of
reception of ideas and practice. The contributions seek both to
close the critical gaps with respect to weaving, a broad and
complex field in the area of ancient cultural techniques, and to
identify new themes. Accordingly, the submissions expand our focus
into late antiquity, to integrate texts such as letters written on
Papyrus detailing the everyday correspondence of an Egyptian family
or to spotlight the meaning of textile terms and the history of
misunderstandings associated therein. Frequently overused analogies
between writing and weaving are also examined in terms of their
legitimacy as well as their limits. The papers presented here
result from an international and interdisciplinary conference under
the same title held in Castelen, near Basel in 2012.
This collection of essays analyzes the construction of the fall of
Rome from a range of perspectives native to different disciplines.
Subjects addressed include comparable discourses dating from the
earlier history of Rome, the perception of this historical moment
by writers living at the time it occurred, and its reception in
Byzantium and Western Europe during the Middle Ages."
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