Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field

Jorg B. Quenzer

ISBN 10: 311022562X / ISBN 13: 9783110225624

Edité par De Gruyter, DE, 2014

A propos de cet article

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of 'manuscript studies' has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field
• Éditeur: De Gruyter, DE
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 311022562X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783110225624
• Reliure: Hardback
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of 'manuscript studies' has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.

À propos de l?auteur

Dmitry Bondarev, University of London, GB; Jörg B. Quenzer, University ofHamburg; Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, Copenhagen University, DEN.