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Documentality - New Approaches to Written Documents in Imperial Life and Literature

English · Paperback / Softback

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This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire. Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the imaginative and sociological dimensions of the ancient document. Individual chapters investigate the definition of the document in ancient thought, and how modern understandings of documentation may (mis)shape scholarly approaches to documentary sources in antiquity. Contributors reexamine familiar categories of ancient documents through the lenses of perception and function, and reveal where the modern understanding of the document departs from ancient conceptions of documentation. The boundary between literary genres and documentary genres of writing appears more fluid than prior scholarship had allowed. Compared to modern audiences, inhabitants of the Roman Empire used a more diverse range of both non-textual and textual forms of documentation, and they did so with a more active, questioning attitude. The interdisciplinary approach to the "mentality" of documentation in this volume advances beyond standard discussions of form, genre, and style to revisit the document through the eyes of Greco-Roman readers and viewers.

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J. Arthur-Montagne and I. N. I. Kuin, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville; S. J. DiGiulio, Mississippi State Univ., Starkville, USA.


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Assisted by Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne (Editor), Scott Jared Digiulio (Editor), Scott Jared DiGiulio (Editor), Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin (Editor), Inger Neeltje Irene Kuin (Editor)
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2024
 
EAN 9783111536668
ISBN 978-3-11-153666-8
No. of pages 290
Dimensions 155 mm x 18 mm x 230 mm
Weight 603 g
Illustrations 9 b/w and 2 col. ill.
Series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
ISSN
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 132
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity

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