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The present volume contains twelve chapters authored by specialists
of Asian, African and European manuscript cultures reflecting on
the cohesion of written artefacts, particularly manuscripts.
Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in every manuscript
culture and that they are usually composed of discrete elements
(such as clay tablets, papyrus sheets, bamboo slips, parchment
bifolios, palm leaves), the issue of the cohesion of the
constituents is a general one. The volume presents a series of case
studies on devices and strategies adopted to achieve this cohesion
by manuscript cultures distant in space (from China to West Africa)
and time (from the third millennium bce to the present). This
comparative view provides the frame for the understanding of a
phenomenon that appears to be of essential importance for the study
of the structure of written artefacts. Regardless of the way in
which cohesion is realised, all strategies and devices that allow
the constituents to be kept together are subsumed under the term
‘binding’. Thus, it is possible to highlight similarities,
convergences, and unique physical and technical methods adopted by
various manuscript cultures to face a common challenge.
The so-called 'Canon Tables' of the Christian Gospels are an
absolutely remarkable feature of the early, late antique, and
medieval Christian manuscript cultures of East and West, the
invention of which is commonly attributed to Eusebius and dated to
first decades of the fourth century AD. Intended to host a
technical device for structuring, organizing, and navigating the
Four Gospels united in a single codex - and, in doing so, building
upon and bringing to completion previous endeavours - the Canon
Tables were apparently from the beginning a highly complex
combination of text, numbers and images, that became an integral
and fixed part of all the manuscripts containing the Four Gospels
as Sacred Scripture of the Christians and can be seen as exemplary
for the formation, development and spreading of a specific
Christian manuscript culture across East and West AD 300 and 800.
In the footsteps of Carl Nordenfalk's masterly publication of 1938
and few following contributions, this book offers an updated
overview on the topic of 'Canon Tables' in a comparative
perspective and with a precise look at their context of origin,
their visual appearance, their meaning, function and their usage in
different times, domains, and cultures.
Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal,
commercial and other records or the actual place where they are
located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but
emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following
Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense
as "the general system of the formation and transformation of
statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern
theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and
initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives
have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of
different denominations regarding them as historical objects and
"grounding" them again in real institutions. The papers in this
volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical,
systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader
context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by
whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if
they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats,
and producers (scribes).
This volume brings together a set of contributions, many appearing
in English for the first time, together with a new introduction,
covering the history of the Ethiopian Christian civilization in its
formative period (300-1500 AD). Rooted in the late antique kingdom
of Aksum (present day Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea), and lying
between Byzantium, Africa and the Near East, this civilization is
presented in a series of case studies. At a time when philological
and linguistic investigations are being challenged by new
approaches in Ethiopian studies, this volume emphasizes the
necessity of basic research, while avoiding the reduction of
cultural questions to matters of fact and detail.
The Senodos is one of the largest works in the Ethiopic literature.
Probably translated in different times from more Arabic "Vorlagen"
and partially arranged according to the Pseudo-apostolic literary
gender, it is one of the big canon law collections of the Christian
Oriental Churches. In Ethiopia it was the main source of Canon Law
and the most authoritative work in ecclesiastical matter since the
end of the XIII up to the middle of the XVII century. The Senodos
strongly affected the religious history of the early Solomonic
Ethiopia and played a particular role in the birth of new religious
trends in the crucial centuries from its first appearing (XIII
century) up to king Zar'a Ya'qob's age (1434-1468). The present
book presents the first critical edition of ten of the eleven texts
of the Pseudo-apostolic section of the work (about 90 % of the text
is inedited). The critical edition is based on a total average of
more than 30 mss. and tries to restore the oldest text and to
provide rich evidence of its history. The translation is furnished
with references to quotations of the Senodos in other Ethiopic
works as well as comparison with the Arabic text.
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