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Writing Matters

Presenting and Perceiving Monumental Inscriptions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
  • Edited by: Irene Berti , Katharina Bolle , Fanny Opdenhoff and Fabian Stroth
Languages: English, German
Published/Copyright: 2017
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This edited volume includes a compilation of new approaches to the investigation of inscriptions from different cultural contexts. Innovative research questions about "material text cultures" are examined with reference to Classical Athens, late ancient and Byzantine churches and urban spaces, Hellenistic and Roman cities, and medieval buildings.

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I. Berti, K. Bolle, F. Stroth, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; F. Opdenhoff, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany.

Reviews

"[...] this volume offers an important contribution to understanding incised texts and will be of value to students and scholars of various disciplines."
Alexandra Wilding in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.04.43

"[...] an interesting and thought-provoking collection [...] it covers an impressive array of approaches to the materiality of text and will be of interest to anyone engaged with the topic of inscriptions as physical objects."
Naomi Carless-Unwin in: Classics for All March 16, 2018 https://classicsforall.org.uk/book-reviews/writing-matters-presenting-perceiving-monumental-inscriptions-antiquity-middle-ages/


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Irene Berti, Katharina Bolle, Fanny Opdenhoff and Fabian Stroth
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Theoretical and Methodical Approaches Around and About Writing

Materiality and Presence in Medieval German Narrations of Epitaphs
Ludger Lieb and Ricarda Wagner
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Alexander Starre
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Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais
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Text Spaces

Irene Berti and Péter Kató
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Eeva-Maria Viitanen and Laura Nissin
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Georgios Pallis
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Inscribed Monuments and Memory

Julia L. Shear
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Art, Text and Context in Second-Century BC Greece
Milena Melfi
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Elizabeth A. Meyer
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Writing Practices: Seeing, Perceiving and Acting with Inscriptions

Andreas Rhoby
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The Surveyor Angel on the Moissac Capital (ca. 1100)
Vincent Debiais
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Wilfried E. Keil
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Rebecca R. Benefiel
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eBook published on:
August 21, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9783110534597
Hardcover published on:
August 21, 2017
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110529159
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
8
Main content:
396
Illustrations:
98
Coloured Illustrations:
30
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