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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Materiale Textkulturen SeriesPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (138 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110371758
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Communication and MaterialityDDC classification:
  • 302.230935
LOC classification:
  • P92.M5.C666 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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