These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity : Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 7 January 2016

• Main Author: Jean-Luc Fournet (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Collège de France 2018
• Subjects: papyrology; paleography; Egypt; Late Antiquity; Greek; multilingualism
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Papyrology, which burgeoned in the nineteenth century after the discovery of thousands of papyri in Egypt, consists in the study of Greek and Latin texts written on a transportable medium (papyrus, clay potsherds, wooden tablets or parchment). While inscriptions and literary sources can render a nor...