Communication and Materiality: Written and Unwritten Communication in Pre-Modern Societies

✍ Scribed by Susanne Enderwitz (editor); Rebecca Sauer (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 138
Series: Materiale Textkulturen; 8
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Open Access

This volume reconsiders literacy and communication in pre-modern societies, focusing especially on how material form affects the way textual artefacts are understood and interpreted. By bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines such as archaeology, medieval studies, and Islamic studies, this volume provides the specialist and non-specialist with insights on how humans express themselves through writing and material culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Communication and Materiality—Communicative Strategies of Ruling Elites from 3000 BCE through 1500 CE
Spreading the Royal Word: The (Im)Materiality of Communication in Early Mesopotamia
Linear B Administration: The Communicative Aspects of Written Media and the Organisation of the Mycenaean Bureaucracy
Materiality and Reality of the Communication of Divine Will in the Sargonid Period
utā pavastāyā utā carmā grftam āha—Written on Clay and Parchment: Old Persian Writing and Allography in Iranian
Charters, Pitchforks, and Green Seals. Written Documents between Text and Materiality in late Medieval Revolts
The Textile Performance of the Written Word: Islamic Robes of Honour (khilaʿ)
Postscript
Notes on Contributors

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