Communication and Materiality : Written and Unwritten Communication in Pre-Modern Societies.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (138 pages)
- Materiale Textkulturen Series ; v.8 .
- Materiale Textkulturen Series .
Intro -- 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.
The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections and monographs dedicated to the Collaborative Research Center's main focus of research - that is, the materiality and presence of writing in non-typographic societies.