Writing Matters. Presenting and Perceiving Monumental Inscriptions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

• Main Author: Stroth, Fabian (auth)
• Other Authors: Opdenhoff, Fanny (auth), Berti, Irene (auth), Bolle, Katharina (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2017
• Series: Materiale Textkulturen
• Subjects: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Antiquity and the Middle Ages; practices of reception; materiality of writing; presence of writing
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This edited volume includes a compilation of new approaches to the investigation of inscriptions from different cultural contexts. Innovative research questions about "material text cultures" are examined with reference to Classical Athens, late ancient and Byzantine churches and urban spa...