Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of
representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most
intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete
enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one
against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and
consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call
management of knowledge in a time before our own.
The
present volume is the product of two workshops held in 2019 and 2021 as
part of the research focus Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World:
Texts and Ideas between Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad, which was
generously supported and funded by the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS)
at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. Aiming to understand
how synopses and lists function in the literatures of the great
intellectual traditions of late antiquity—the ancient Near East, ancient
philosophy, and the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam—the volume offers a historical and transcultural perspective
on synopses and lists, highlighting the centrality of these textual
practices to allow storing, retrieving, selecting, and organising this
knowledge. Both make deliberate – yet not always explicit – choices as
to what is included and excluded, thereby creating lasting hierarchies
and canons.
Copyright
Teresa Bernheimer; Ronny VollandtPublished On
2023-12-19ISBN
Paperback978-1-80511-118-4
Hardback978-1-80064-916-3
PDF978-1-80511-148-1
Print Length
408 pages (xxii+386)Dimensions
Paperback156 x 29 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.14" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 32 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.26" x 9.21")
Contents
- Ronny Vollandt
- Teresa Bernheimer
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