Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices

Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
Author: Anthony Grafton,Glenn W. Most
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2016-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781107105980

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A comparative intercultural study of the techniques applied by scholars throughout the world to deal with problematic texts and artifacts.

Impagination Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication

Impagination     Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication
Author: Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang,Anthony Grafton,Glenn Warren Most
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783110698756

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This volume is the first comparative history that studies the practice of impagination across different ages and civilizations. By impagination we mean the act of placing and arranging spatially textual and other information onto a material bearer that could be made of a variety of materials (papyrus, bamboo slips, palm leaf, parchment, paper, and the computer screen). This volume investigates three levels of impagination: what is the page or other unit of the material bearer, what is written or printed on it, and how is writing or print placed on it. It also examines the interrelations of two or all three of these levels. Collectively it examines the material and materiality of the page, the variety of imprints, cultural and historical conventions for impagination, interlinguistic encounters, the control of editors, scribes, publishers and readers over the page, inheritance, borrowing and innovation, economics, aesthetics and socialities of imprints and impagination, and the relationship of impagination to philology. This volume supplements studies on mise en page and layout – an important subject of codicology – first by including non-codex writings, second by taking a closer look at the page or other unit than at the codex (or book), and third by its aspiration to adopt a globally comparative approach. This volume brings together for comparison vast geographical realms of learning, including Europe, China, Tibet, Korea, Japan and the Near Eastern and European communities in which the Hebrew Bible was transmitted. This comparison is significant, for Europe, China, and India all developed great traditions of learning which came into intensive contact. The contributions to this volume are firmly rooted in local cultures and together address global, comparative themes that are significant for multiple disciplines, such as intellectual and cultural history of knowledge (both humanistic and scientific), global history, literary and media studies, aesthetics, and studies of material culture, among other fields.

Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues

Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues
Author: Ulrike Steinert
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2018-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781501504877

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The reconstruction of ancient Mesopotamian medical, ritual and omen compendia and their complex history is still characterised by many difficulties, debates and gaps due to fragmentary or unpublished evidence. This book offers the first complete edition of the Assur Medical Catalogue, an 8th or 7th century BCE list of therapeutic texts, which forms a core witness for the serialisation of medical compendia in the 1st millennium BCE. The volume presents detailed analyses of this and several other related catalogues of omen series and rituals, constituting the corpora of divination and healing disciplines. The contributions discuss links between catalogues and textual sources, providing new insights into the development of compendia between serialization, standardization and diversity of local traditions. Though its a novel corpus-based approach, this volume revolutionizes the current understanding of Mesopotamian medical texts and the healing disciplines of "conjurer" and "physician". The research presented here allows one to identify core text corpora for these disciplines, as well as areas of exchange and borrowings between them.

What is a Classic in History

What is a Classic in History
Author: Jaume Aurell
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781009469968

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This innovative study explores the emergence, survival, and continued cultural importance of historical texts considered to be 'classics'.

Thinking in the Past Tense

Thinking in the Past Tense
Author: Alexander Bevilacqua,Frederic Clark
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226601205

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If the vibrancy on display in Thinking in the Past Tense is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims with insights from such diverse fields as the history of science, the reception of classical antiquity, book history, global philology, and the study of material culture. The eight practitioners interviewed here specialize in the study of the early modern period (c. 1400–1800), for the last forty years a crucial laboratory for testing new methods in intellectual history. The lively conversations don’t simply reveal these scholars’ depth and breadth of thought; they also disclose the kind of trade secrets that historians rarely elucidate in print. Thinking in the Past Tense offers students and professionals alike a rare tactile understanding of the practice of intellectual history. Here is a collectively drawn portrait of the historian’s craft today.

Osiris Volume 37

Osiris  Volume 37
Author: Tara Alberts,Sietske Fransen,Elaine Leong
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2021-06-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780226825120

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Highlights the importance of translation for the global exchange of medical theories, practices, and materials in the premodern period. This volume of Osiris turns the analytical lens of translation onto medical knowledge and practices across the premodern world. Understandings of the human body, and of diseases and their cures, were influenced by a range of religious, cultural, environmental, and intellectual factors. As a result, complex systems of translation emerged as people crossed linguistic and territorial boundaries to share not only theories and concepts, but also materials, such as drugs, amulets, and surgical tools. The studies here reveal how instances of translation helped to shape and, in some cases, reimagine these ideas and objects to fit within local frameworks of medical belief. Translating Medicine across Premodern Worlds features case studies located in geographically and temporally diverse contexts, including ninth-century Baghdad, sixteenth-century Seville, seventeenth-century Cartagena, and nineteenth-century Bengal. Throughout, the contributors explore common themes and divergent experiences associated with a variety of historical endeavors to “translate” knowledge about health and the body across languages, practices, and media. By deconstructing traditional narratives and de-emphasizing well-worn dichotomies, this volume ultimately offers a fresh and innovative approach to histories of knowledge.

New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship

New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship
Author: Ann Blair,Nicholas Popper
Publsiher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781421440934

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"This edited collection assembles a set of essays investigating the past, present, and future historiography of scholars who write about the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe. Contributors examine how scholars in recent decades have broken down traditional boundaries imposed on this period by exploring shifting conceptions of periodization, geography, genre, and evidence"--

Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World

Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World
Author: Karine Chemla,Glenn W. Most
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781108839570

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Comparative analysis of the techniques and procedures of important mathematical commentaries in five ancient cultures from China to Greece.