Overview
- Features contributions from leading historians of scribal culture across the world
- Ranges from the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the public inscriptions and the democratization of writing in the modern era
- Suggests the uses and functions of writing in non-alphabetical as well as alphabetical script, in societies ranging from the Aztecs and ancient China to modern Europe
Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
“Approaches to the History of Written Culture is a volume of breadth and ambition. It covers all periods from the second millennium BC to the late twentieth-century, a wide range of geographies, and deploys a challenging body of theoretical and methodological approaches to the topic of scribal cultures and practices.” (David Vincent, Emeritus Professor of Social History, The Open University, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Martyn Lyons is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published many books and articles on the history of reading and writing in Europe and Australia including A History of Reading & Writing in the Western World (Palgrave, 2010) and The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860-c.1920 (2013). He has previously published 4 titles with Palgrave Macmillan.
Rita Marquilhas is Associate Professor in General & Romance Linguistics at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and chief investigator on the 'Postscriptum Project – A Digital Archive of Ordinary Writingsin Early Modern Portugal and Spain'. She is the author of several articles on the social history of language.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Approaches to the History of Written Culture
Book Subtitle: A World Inscribed
Editors: Martyn Lyons, Rita Marquilhas
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54136-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54135-8Published: 16 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85328-4Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54136-5Published: 07 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 272
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of the Book, Cultural History