These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory : Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity : Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 7 January 2016
Papyrology, which burgeoned in the nineteenth century after the discovery of thousands of papyri in Egypt, consists in the study of Greek and Latin texts written on a transportable medium (papyrus, clay potsherds, wooden tablets or parchment). While inscriptions and literary sources can render a nor...
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Livre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Paris :
Collège de France
2018.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Linkit: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9782722605008.png Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Histoire |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity, Paris, Collège de France, 2018 |
| Yhteenveto: | Papyrology, which burgeoned in the nineteenth century after the discovery of thousands of papyri in Egypt, consists in the study of Greek and Latin texts written on a transportable medium (papyrus, clay potsherds, wooden tablets or parchment). While inscriptions and literary sources can render a normative, idealized and sometimes deformed image of individuals, papyri - no matter how fragmented they may be - take us into their daily lives, thus making possible the archaeology of cultural practices. Attempting to decipher "these shreds, guardians of the human memory" - to paraphrase Leonardo de Vinci - is the challenge of the papyrologist, who ceaselessly renews our knowledge of the past |
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| Huomautukset: | Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9782722605008.png Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Histoire |
| ISBN: | 9782722605008 |
| Pääsy: | L'accès en ligne est réservé aux établissements ou bibliothèques ayant souscrit l'abonnement |