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The covers are clean and bright with bumped corners; the previous owner's name is inscribed on the Preface page; there is underlining in the text, and the book is tight.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Sticker residue on back board. ; This book consists of a series of studies, each by a specialist in a different period or area of the ancient history of the Mediterranean world and northern Europe, examining the relationship between power and the use of writing in ancient society. The studies range in date from c. 600 B. C. To A. D. 800. It is intended not to provide a complete coverage of the ancient world but to use particular case studies to examine ways in which the relationship between literacy and power can be analyzed. Some of the Contents include: Persepolis Tablets; Literacy and city-state in archaic and classical Greece; Literacy and language in Egypt in Late and Persian periods; Scribes and power in Roman Judaea; Roman Imperial Army: letters on the Northern Frontier; literacy and power in early Christianity; Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria; Byzantine Period etc. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 259 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Sticker residue on back board. ; This book consists of a series of studies, each by a specialist in a different period or area of the ancient history of the Mediterranean world and northern Europe, examining the relationship between power and the use of writing in ancient society. The studies range in date from c. 600 B. C. To A. D. 800. It is intended not to provide a complete coverage of the ancient world but to use particular case studies to examine ways in which the relationship between literacy and power can be analyzed. Some of the Contents include: Persepolis Tablets; Literacy and city-state in archaic and classical Greece; Literacy and language in Egypt in Late and Persian periods; Scribes and power in Roman Judaea; Roman Imperial Army: letters on the Northern Frontier; literacy and power in early Christianity; Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria; Byzantine Period etc. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 259 pages.

Binding sound, text unmarked. Condition: Near Fine. Binding curves slightly. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 4th printing. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: xx, 479pp., many illustrations, 25 x 18 cm. No ownership marks.

Condition: Sehr gut. IX, 249 p., ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, pencil annoation on endpaper, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, Bleistiftanmerkung auf Vorsatzblatt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: List of illustrations -- 1. Literacy and power in the ancient world, ALAN K. BOWMAN, Christ Church, Oxford and GREG WOOLF, Brasenose College, Oxford -- 2. The Persepolis Tablets: speech, seal and script, D. M. LEWIS, Christ Church, Oxford -- 3. Literacy and the city-state in archaic and classical Greece, ROSALIND THOMAS, Royal Holloway, University of London -- 4. Literacy and language in Egypt in the Late and Persian Periods, JOHN RAY, Selwyn College, Cambridge -- 5. Literacy and power in Ptolemaic Egypt, DOROTHY J. THOMPSON, Girton College, Cambridge -- 6. Power and the spread of writing in the West, GREG WOOLF -- 7. Texts, scribes and power in Roman Judaea, M. D. GOODMAN, Oriental Institute and Wolfson College, Oxford -- 8. The Roman imperial army: letters and literacy on the northern frontier, ALAN K. BOWMAN -- 9. Literacy and power in early Christianity, ROBIN LANE FOX, New College, Oxford -- 10. Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria, P. BROCK, Oriental Institute and Wolfson College, Oxford -- 11. Later Roman bureaucracy: going through the files, C. M. KELLY, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Royal Holloway, University of London -- 12. Literacy and power in the migration period, PETER HEATHER, University College London -- 13. Texts as weapons: polemic in the Byzantine dark ages, AVERIL CAMERON, Kings College London. - This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider context of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society. Was writing a revolutionary innovation, prompting or participating in social change, or a fundamentally repressive and disciplinary technology? The book consists of a series of studies ranging over the whole of the Mediterranean world and much of northern Europe during a period of more than a millennium (c. 600 BC -AD 800). The areas examined include Pharaonic and Hellenistic Egypt, Persia and the Near East, Judaea, classical Greece, and the Roman and Byzantine empires. Each of the contributors investigates, in his or her particular area of expertise, the changing roles of writing in history, in particular the extent to which writing played an active role in historical change in antiquity. The book as a whole illustrates and explores the diversity of writing practices and their relations to the construction of power in ancient society, with an awareness of the competing claims of anthropological and historical disciplines. Ancient and medieval historians, anthropologists and anyone interested in the power of the written word will find this book essential reading. ISBN 9780521433693 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495 Original cloth with dust jacket.

Gr.-8°, Brosch. XI, 299 S. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // Bildet das zweite Jahrhundert n. Chr. eine Zäsur für die Entwicklung von Vorstellungen eines "Selbst"? Wenn ja, weist dieser Prozess eine religiöse Dimension auf? War er mit Veränderungen im Bereich von Praktiken und Institutionen verbunden? Und schließlich: Lassen sich diese Entwicklungen als je eigene Formen von religiöser Individualisierung verstehen? Diesen Fragen widmen sich die Autoren dieses Bandes, Spezialisten für die Philosophie, Theologie, Literatur- und Religionsgeschichte der Epoche. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Texte und Autoren wie Seneca, Plutarch, Epiktet, der "Hirte des Hermas", Lukian von Samosata, Justin Martyr und Ptolemaeus von Rom und das Corpus Hermeticum. Die Autoren des Bandes zeigen, wie sich Vorstellungen vom "Selbst" mit körperbezogenen Praktiken von Kleidung und Haartracht wie Institutionen ethischer Reflexion und religiöser Erziehung miteinander zu wirkmächtigen Vorstellungen verbinden. ISBN: 9783161522437 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 481.

Hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: Gut. XV, 601 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben und mit leichten Randläsuren, Bleistifteintrag auf Vorsatz, eine Seite weist einen Knick auf, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket slightly rubbed and with slight edge wear, pencil entry on endpaper, one page has a big crease, otherwise very good condition. - There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on this material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge-ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the encyclopaedia, and showing instead how the rhetoric and techniques of comprehensive compilation left their mark on a surprising range of texts. In the process it draws attention to both remarkable similarities and striking differences between conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in different periods. The focus is primarily on European/Mediterranean culture. The book covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance culture in turn, and combines chapters which survey whole periods with others focused closely on individual texts as case studies / 1 Introduction Jason Konig and Greg Woolf Part I ClassicalEncyclopaedism 2 Encyclopaedism in the Roman empire Jason Konig and Greg Woolf 3 Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian library Myrto Hatzimichali 4 Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Plinys Natural History Mary Beagon 5 Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek Teresa Morgan 6 Plutarch's corpus of quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism Katerina Oikonomopoulou 7 Artemidorus Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia Daniel Harris-McCoy 8 Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinians Encyclopaedia of Roman law Jill Harries 9 Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge Marco Formisano Part II Medieval Encyclopaedism 10 Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries Paul Magdalino 11 The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts Andras Nemeth 12 Ad maiorem Deigloriam: Joseph Rhakendytes synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen 13 Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen 14 Isidores Etymologies: on words and things Andy Merrills 15 Loose giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock Ian Johnson 16 Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? Elias Muhanna 17 Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers Maaike van Berkel Part III Renaissance Encyclopaedism 18 Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism Ann Blair 19 Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedi some observations Daniel Andersson 20 Reading Plinys ape in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print Paul Dover 21 Shakespeares encyclopaedias Neil Rhodes 22 Big Dig: Dugdales drainage and the dregs of England Claire Preston 23 Irony and encyclopaedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment William N. West Part IV Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript 24 The passion to collect, select and protect: fifteen hundred years of the Chinese encyclopaedia Harriett. Zurndorfer. ISBN 9781107038233 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1369.

Condition: Very Good. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994. 8vo. IX,+ (blank),+ 249 pp. Publ. cloth with dustwrapper. With Tore Jansons owners signature and from his library. Contains essays from: Alan. K. Bowman, Greg Woolf, D. M. Lewis, Rosalind Thomas, John Ray, Dorothy J. Thompson, M. D. Goodman, Robin Lane Fox, S. P. Brock, C. M Kelly, Peter Heather, and Averil Cameron. Hardcover / Hardback.