| Collect and Preserve: Institutional Contexts of Epistemic Knowledge in Pre-Modern Societies Contributor(s): Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva (Editor), Kahl, Jochem (Editor), Lee, Eun-Jung (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3447108290 ISBN-13: 9783447108294 Publisher: Harrassowitz OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science - General |
| Series: Episteme in Bewegung |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.9" W x 9.6" (1.15 lbs) 177 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The use of writing for the preservation and transmission of administrative, scientific, literary and sacred knowledge has a long history. From the third millennium BCE on, many forms of social processes - intellectual, religious, political and others - have been increasingly materialized in the form of a variety of document types (tablets, bones, papyri, scrolls, parchments, books). Some of them were collected in archives or libraries that were dependent on royal palaces, governmental institutions and temples but also in private contexts. The publication Collect and Preserve assembles a number of studies devoted to material aspects of collecting texts in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Qumran, Medieval Japan, and Korea under the Choson-Dynasty (1392-1910). |