Bentein, Klaas
(ed.)
Amory, Yasmine
(ed.)
Editorial: Brill
Colección: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; 41
Número de páginas: 208 págs.
Fecha de edición: 14-12-2022
EAN: 9789004526518
ISBN: 978-90-04-52651-8
Precio (sin IVA): 138,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 143,52 €
Documentary texts are vital to our understanding of many aspects of the ancient world, such as its administration, education, and economy. The value of these texts goes even further however: being autographs, they directly testify to ancient communication practices, a field of study which so far has remained underexplored. In this volume, specialists in the field engage with a broad range of documentary sources. They discuss not only how various modes of communication, such as language, handwriting, and lay-out, are employed in specific contexts of writing, but also how these different modes are interrelated. Building on insights from contemporary social-semiotic theory, the volume makes a case for the establishment of historical social semiotics as a discipline.