Chapter Writing, Copying, Translating Ethiopia as a Manuscript Culture

• Main Author: Bausi, Alessandro (auth)
• Other Authors: Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich (Editor), Quenzer, Jörg (Editor), Bondarev, Dmitry (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2014
• Subjects: History: theory & methods; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy: aesthetics; Cultural Studies; Manuscripts Philology
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

What do Mesoamerica, Greece, Byzantium, Island, Chad, Ethiopia, India, Tibet, China and Japan have in common? Like many other cultures of the world, they share a particular form of cultural heritage: ancient handwritten documents. This volume offers in 16 articles on philological, cultural, and mate...