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

• 1. Verfasser: Stroth, Fabian (auth)
• Weitere Verfasser: Opdenhoff, Fanny (auth), Berti, Irene (auth), Bolle, Katharina (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: De Gruyter 2017
• Schriftenreihe: Materiale Textkulturen
• Schlagworte: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Antiquity and the Middle Ages; practices of reception; materiality of writing; presence of writing
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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...