Surprise Castle
Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World

Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World - Paperback

$43.99
$46.95
-6%
Quantity
01

Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with

Availability:In StockContributor:Teresa Bernheimer (Editor), Ronny Vollandt (Editor)Publish date:2023-12-19Pages:410
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Book PublishersISBN-13:9781805111184ISBN-10:1805111183UPC:9781805111184Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Ancient, Comparative ReligionSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.11 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SCN7WXPDQE

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.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Book PublishersISBN-13:9781805111184ISBN-10:1805111183UPC:9781805111184Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Ancient, Comparative ReligionSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.11 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SCN7WXPDQE
Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.

Recently Viewed

View All