Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity : Towards a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach /

Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity : Towards a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach /

Documentary texts are vital to our understanding of many aspects of the ancient world, such as its administration, education, and economy. The value of these texts goes even further however: being autographs, they directly testify to ancient communication practices, a field of study which so far has...

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Other Authors: Amory, Yasmine (Editor), Bentein, Klaas (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; 41.

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Communication > History > To 1500 > Congresses.
Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri)

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Call Number: PA3343

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Editorial Notation
  • Introduction: Developing a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach to Communication Practices in Antiquity /
  • Klaas Bentein and Yasmine Amory
  • Chapter 1 Beyond the Text or the Contribution of "Paléographie signifiante" in Documentary Papyrology: The Example of Formats in Late Antiquity /
  • Jean-Luc Fournet
  • Chapter 2 BIG & Small: The Size of Documents as a Semiotic Resource for Graeco-Roman Egypt /
  • Marco Stroppa
  • Chapter 3 Notes on Ostraca and Scribal Practice /
  • Sofía Torallas Tovar
  • Chapter 4 Visual Signs of Deference in Late Antique Greek Letters on Papyrus /
  • Yasmine Amory
  • Chapter 5 The Spread and Persistence of Roman Features in Some Greek Papyrus Letters of the High Chancery /
  • Eleonora Angela Conti
  • Chapter 6 Applied Category Analysis for Interpreting a List in the Late Antique Documentary Tradition: Some Preliminary Considerations /
  • Antonella Ghignoli
  • Chapter 7 The Textualization of Women's Letters from Roman Egypt: Analyzing Historical Framing Practices from a Multi-Modal Point of View /
  • Klaas Bentein
  • Chapter 8 Towards a Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Greek Medical Prescriptions on Papyrus /
  • Nicola Reggiani
  • Chapter 9 Imagining Faith: Images, Scripts, and Texts of Early Christian Inscriptions from the Roman Near East /
  • James Wolfe
  • Chapter 10 The "Exposed Writings": Semiotic Contributions to the Analysis of Linguistic Variability in Archaic Greek Inscriptions /
  • Sarah Béthume
  • Chapter 11 Ὀκτώ or ὀκτώι : Reconsidering Orthographic Hypercorrection in Antiquity /
  • Geert De Mol
  • Chapter 12 Word-Split Frequency in Greek Documentary Papyri (with an Appendix on Syllabification) /
  • Mark Depauw
  • Index of Passages Cited
  • Index of Subjects.