Reese, Scott
(ed.)
Editorial: Walter de Gruyter
Colección: Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; 26
Número de páginas: 382 págs.
Fecha de edición: 20-09-2022
EAN: 9783110776034
ISBN: 978-3-11-077603-4
Precio (sin IVA): 120,95 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 125,79 €
This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print naturally and inevitably displaces handwritten texts as well as the notion that the so-called transition from manuscript to print is unidirectional. Indeed, rather than distinct technologies that emerge in a progressive series (one naturally following the other), they frequently co-exist in complex and complementary relationships – relationships we are only now starting to recognize and explore.