Writing Matters : : Presenting and Perceiving Monumental Inscriptions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

• Superior document: Materiale Textkulturen Series ; v.14
• Author: Berti, Irene.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bolle, Katharina.; Opdenhoff, Fanny.; Stroth, Fabian.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : De Gruyter, Inc.,, 2017.; ©2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Materiale Textkulturen Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Theoretical and Methodical Approaches Around and About Writing -- Dead Writing Matters? -- Social Texts: How to Account for the Cultural Work of Carrier Media -- Das synaktive Potential von Beischriften -- Text Spaces -- Listen im öffentlichen Raum hellenistischer Städte -- Campaigning for Votes in Ancient Pompeii: Contextualizing Electoral Programmata -- Messages from a Sacred Space: The Function of the Byzantine Sanctuary Barrier Inscriptions (9&lt -- sup&gt -- th&lt -- /sup&gt -- -14&lt -- sup&gt -- th&lt -- /sup&gt -- centuries) -- Inscribed Monuments and Memory -- Writing Past and Present in Hellenistic Athens: The Honours for Demosthenes -- The Stele of Polybios -- Inscribing in Columns in Fifth-Century Athens -- Writing Practices: Seeing, Perceiving and Acting with Inscriptions -- Text as Art? Byzantine Inscriptions and Their Display -- Writing on Medieval Doors -- Von sichtbaren und verborgenen Signaturen an mittelalterlichen Kirchen -- Urban and Suburban Attitudes to Writing on Walls? Pompeii and Environs -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.