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This book introduces the fast-developing field of book history.
James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and
accessible guide to the global study of the production,
dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all
societies and in all ages. Students, teachers, researchers and
general readers will benefit from the book s investigation of the
subject s origins, scope and future direction. Based on original
research and a wide range of sources, What is the History of the
Book? shows how book history crosses disciplinary boundaries and
intersects with literary, historical, communications, media,
library and conservation studies. Raven uses examples from around
the world to explore different traditions in bibliography,
palaeography and manuscript studies. He analyses book history s
growing global ambition and demonstrates how the study of reading
practises opens up new horizons in social history and the history
of knowledge. He shows how book history is contributing to debates
about intellectual and popular culture, colonialism and the
communication of ideas. The first global, accessible introduction
to the field of book history from ancient to modern times, What is
the History of the Book? is essential reading for all those
interested in one of society s most important cultural artefacts.
This book introduces the fast-developing field of book history.
James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and
accessible guide to the global study of the production,
dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all
societies and in all ages. Students, teachers, researchers and
general readers will benefit from the book s investigation of the
subject s origins, scope and future direction. Based on original
research and a wide range of sources, What is the History of the
Book? shows how book history crosses disciplinary boundaries and
intersects with literary, historical, communications, media,
library and conservation studies. Raven uses examples from around
the world to explore different traditions in bibliography,
palaeography and manuscript studies. He analyses book history s
growing global ambition and demonstrates how the study of reading
practises opens up new horizons in social history and the history
of knowledge. He shows how book history is contributing to debates
about intellectual and popular culture, colonialism and the
communication of ideas. The first global, accessible introduction
to the field of book history from ancient to modern times, What is
the History of the Book? is essential reading for all those
interested in one of society s most important cultural artefacts.
The ancient Egyptians were firmly convinced of the importance of
magic, which was both a source of supernatural wisdom and a means
of affecting one's own fate. The gods themselves used it for
creating the world, granting mankind magical powers as an aid to
the struggle for existence. Magic formed a link between human
beings, gods, and the dead. Magicians were the indispensable
guardians of the god-given cosmic order, learned scholars who were
always searching for the Magic Book of Thoth, which could explain
the wonders of nature. Egyptian Magic, illustrated with wonderful
and mysterious objects from European museum collections, describes
how Egyptian sorcerers used their craft to protect the weakest
members of society, to support the gods in their fight against
evil, and to imbue the dead with immortality, and explores the
arcane systems and traditions of the occult that governed this
well-organized universe of ancient Egypt.
This enchanted tour of Egyptian art by one of its early explorers
is one of the most beautiful modern works on ancient Egyptian art.
Prisse d'Avennes's monumental work, first published in Paris over a
ten-year period between 1868 and 1878, includes the only surviving
record of many lost artifacts. This classic work is now available
for the first time in paperback.
This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by
examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in
Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century. Seven lively essays
debate our understanding of what is meant by loss and how it
relates to popular conceptions of the great house.
A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished
international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on
the exchange of culture and ideas between isolated communities
through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons
between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese
territories further south.
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great
libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual,
political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original
contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost
libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the
greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and
Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book
collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the
recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and
Iraq.
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great
libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual,
political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original
contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost
libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the
greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and
Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book
collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the
recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and
Iraq.
Jan Herman Insinger was a well-known character in the history of
Egyptology, mainly because his name has been linked forever with a
famous demotic wisdom papyrus now in Leiden. Although he is
mentioned by many of his contemporaries, biographical notes on
Insinger rarely surpass a few lines and can be quite inaccurate.
However, a lot of information can be gathered from the Archives of
the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden and other sources,
both published and unpublished ones. These documents enable us to
sketch a brief biography of this fascinating figure. Former studies
by the present author dealt with Insinger's activities as a
photographer and a traveller. The present volume focuses on
Insinger's activities as an art collector. Insinger can be regarded
as a maecenas of the Leiden Museum. Thus, a study of this aspect of
his manifold interests is mainly relevant for the information it
provides on the growth of the Egyptian treasures in Leiden.
A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished
international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on
the exchange of culture and ideas between isolated communities
through books and correspondence, and offers pioneering comparisons
between the northern Atlantic and that of Spanish and Portuguese
territories further south.
The two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and
2010 by the Leiden Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of
Saqqara. Both date to the transition period between the reign of
the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the return to orthodoxy under his
successor Tutankhamun. They are valuable additions to the growing
corpus of funerary architecture from the Memphite cemeteries, yet
they are quite different. Ptahemwia was a royal butler, presumably
in the Memphite palace. The wall-reliefs and inscriptions of his
tomb illustrate aspects of his professional life. Yet the career of
the tomb-owner preserves some mysteries, such as the assumed change
of his name, his potential foreign origins, and the reason why his
tomb could not be finished according to plan. Sethnakht is an even
more elusive person. This simple scribe of the temple of Ptah can
hardly have been the main owner of the tomb next to Ptahemwia's,
which was started in the same lavish style and then remained
undecorated. There are reasons to assume that Sethnakht was just
one of the relatives of the owner, who - like Ptahemwia - seems to
have suffered from the political vicissitudes of the period. This
publication presents the results of the recent excavations, with an
introduction on the biographical data of the tomb owners followed
by detailed discussions of the tomb architecture and wall
decorations, as well as the objects, pottery, and skeletal material
found in the area. Thus it is aimed at an audience of professional
readers with an interest in funerary archaeology.
The two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and
2010 by the Leiden Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of
Saqqara. Both date to the transition period between the reign of
the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the return to orthodoxy under his
successor Tutankhamun. They are valuable additions to the growing
corpus of funerary architecture from the Memphite cemeteries, yet
they are quite different. Ptahemwia was a royal butler, presumably
in the Memphite palace. The wall-reliefs and inscriptions of his
tomb illustrate aspects of his professional life. Yet the career of
the tomb-owner preserves some mysteries, such as the assumed change
of his name, his potential foreign origins, and the reason why his
tomb could not be finished according to plan. Sethnakht is an even
more elusive person. This simple scribe of the temple of Ptah can
hardly have been the main owner of the tomb next to Ptahemwia’s,
which was started in the same lavish style and then remained
undecorated. There are reasons to assume that Sethnakht was just
one of the relatives of the owner, who – like Ptahemwia – seems
to have suffered from the political vicissitudes of the period.
This publication presents the results of the recent excavations,
with an introduction on the biographical data of the tomb owners
followed by detailed discussions of the tomb architecture and wall
decorations, as well as the objects, pottery, and skeletal material
found in the area. Thus it is aimed at an audience of professional
readers with an interest in funerary archaeology.
This multi-authored work is the result of a conference held by the
Scottish Archaeological Forum in October 2005 to discuss and assess
new discoveries and reinterpretations of material relating to the
island archaeology of Western Europe, especially the Scottish
islands. Scottish Odysseys begins with an introductory chapter by
noted expert in island studies, Andrew Fleming, on Iconic and
Mythic islands. The other chapters look at different aspects of the
subject - in particular Shetland, North and South Uist and Lewis,
as well as more general studies of Late Bronze Age metalworking in
the Scottish Islands and the economics of an Iron Age
infrastructure in the Northern Isles.
This volume focuses on J.H. Insinger (1854/1918) as a collector of
Ancient Egyptian art and maecenas of the Leiden Museum of
Antiquities.
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