Communication and materiality : : written and unwritten communication in pre-modern societies / / edited by Susanne Enderwitz and Rebecca Sauer.
This volume reconsiders the question of literacy and communication in pre-modern societies from an interdisciplinary perspective. Methodologically, its authors rely on the assumption that not only the content of a specific message, but also its material form and outlook effect the way in which textu...
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| Superior document: | Materiale Textkulturen, Band 8 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin, [Gemany] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : De Gruyter,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Materiale Textkulturen ;
Band 8. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (138 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Introduction: Communication and Materiality - Communicative Strategies of Ruling Elites from 3000 BCE through 1500 CE
- Bibliography
- Spreading the Royal Word: The (Im)Materiality of Communication in Early Mesopotamia / Tsouparopoulou, Christina
- Linear B Administration: The Communicative Aspects of Written Media and the Organisation of the Mycenaean Bureaucracy / Karagianni, Angeliki
- Materiality and Reality of the Communication of Divine Will in the Sargonid Period / Wilhelmi, Lisa
- utā pavastāyā utā carmā grftam āha-Written on Clay and Parchment: Old Persian Writing and Allography in Iranian / Fear, Douglas
- Charters, Pitchforks, and Green Seals / Mauntel, Christoph
- The Textile Performance of the Written Word: Islamic Robes of Honour (khilaʿ) / Sauer, Rebecca
- Postscript / Sauer, Rebecca
- Notes on Contributors