01863nam2 22003733i 450 RML017257320231121125656.020080218d2007 ||||0itac50 baitaitz01i xxxe z01nSan Gennaro nel 17. centenario del martirio (305-2005)atti del Convegno internazionale, Napoli, 21-23 settembre 2005a cura di Gennaro LuongoNapoliEditoriale Comunicazioni Socialistampa 20072 v.ill.25 cm.(2006-2007)UFI0119690001UFI01196902001 Campania sacrastudi e documentirivista di storia sociale e religiosa del MezzogiornoPontificia facoltà teologica dell'Italia Meridionale, Sezione di Capodimonte37-38001RML01725742000 11001RML01726182000 22Gennaro <santo>FIRRMLC141789I282.092CHIESA CATTOLICA ROMANA. PERSONE COLLEGATE CON IL SOGGETTO 21Luongo, GennaroCFIV120607Convegno internazionale San Gennaro nel 17. centenario del martirio <2005 ; Napoli>RMSV7861510701442723ITIT-0120080218IT-RM0830 IT-FR0084 IT-RM0151 IT-FR0017 Biblioteca della Direzione Generale ArchiviRM0830 Biblioteca Del Monumento Nazionale Di MontecassinoFR0084 Biblioteca Istituto Storico Italiano Medio Evo - IRM0151 Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio ApreaFR0017 RML0172573Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio Aprea 52MAG 9/2051.1 52MAG 9/2051.2 20 25 41 52San Gennaro nel 17. centenario del martirio (305-2005)3617482UNICAS04419nam 22004333 450 991101985580332120250610080337.01-394-21822-21-394-21820-6(MiAaPQ)EBC32149388(Au-PeEL)EBL32149388(CKB)39203850600041(OCoLC)1523372354(EXLCZ)993920385060004120250610d2025 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Writing Revolution Cuneiform to the Internet2nd ed.Newark :John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,2025.©2025.1 online resource (407 pages)The Language Library1-394-21819-2 Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The First IT Revolution -- Writing and Language -- Designing a Writing System -- Transliteration -- Chapter 2 Cuneiform: Forgotten Legacy of a Forgotten People -- Proto-cuneiform -- Sumerian Cuneiform -- Akkadian Adaptation -- Spread Beyond Mesopotamia: Elamite, Hurrian, Urartian, and Hittite -- Redesigns: Old Perian, Ugaritic -- Decipherment -- Chapter 3 Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Quest for Eternity -- Hieroglyphs -- Hieroglyphs in Art and Religion -- Hieratic -- Demotic -- Death of a Tradition -- Coptic -- Decipherment -- Chapter 4 Chinese: A Love of Paperwork -- Basics of Chinese Characters -- Writing in Ancient and Early Imperial China -- Classifying and Defining Characters -- The Unifying Effect of Written Chinese -- The Invention and Spread of Paper -- From Classical to Modern Chinese -- Characters in Modern Times -- Spread Beyond Han China -- Chapter 5 Maya Glyphs: Calendars and Kings -- The Calendar -- History of the Maya Hieroglyphic Script -- Decipherment -- Basics of Maya Glyphs -- Chapter 6 Linear B: The Clerks ofAgamemnon -- Discovery -- Three Cretan Scripts and a Cypriot Script -- Initial Decipherment Attempts -- Michael Ventris' Decipherment -- Loss of Cretan Writing -- Chapter 7 Japanese: Three Scripts Are Better than One -- Chinese Characters in Japan -- Man'ygana and Senmygaki -- The Two Kana Syllabaries -- Mixing Kanji and Kana -- Word Processing in Japanese -- Chapter 8 Cherokee: Sequoyah Reverse-Engineers -- Sequoyah's Story -- The Cherokee Syllabary -- Sequoyah's Legacy in North America, Asia, and Africa -- Chapter 9 The Semitic lep-Bt: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,500 Years -- Egyptian Origins -- Canaanite, Ugaritic, Old South Arabian, and Ethiopic -- Phoenician, Punic, Old Hebrew, and Samaritan -- Aramaic -- Square Hebrew.Palmyrene, Syriac, Nabataean, and Mandaic -- Parthian, Sogdian, Pahlavi, and Avestan -- Turkic, Uighur, Mongolian, and Manchu -- Arabic -- Chapter 10 The Empire of Sanskrit -- Ancient Indian Writing -- Writing with Aksharas -- The Age of Sanskrit -- Diversification and Spread -- Written Vernaculars -- Attitudes to Language and Script -- Chapter 11 King Sejong's One-ManRenaissance -- Sejong's Mission -- Han'gl Basics -- Han'gl's Reception -- Chapter 12 Greek Serendipity -- How the Alphabet Was Made -- Greek Literacy -- Post-Classical Developments -- Etruscan -- Gothic, Coptic, Armenian, and Georgian -- Glagolitic and Cyrillic -- Chapter 13 The Age of Latin -- The Early Latin Alphabet -- Fall and Fragmentation of the Western Empire -- The Carolingian Renaissance -- Old English Literacy -- Chapter 14 The Alphabet Meets the Machine -- Paper Comes to Europe -- Growing Demand -- The Moveable-Type Printing Press -- A New Information Age -- Adapting the Roman Alphabet in Europe -- Spread of the Roman Alphabet Beyond Europe -- Further Mechanization -- The Typewriter -- Chapter 15 Writing Goes to Bits -- Louis Braille's Binary System -- Samuel Morse's Telegraph and Code -- Later Encodings and Unicode -- Word Processing -- The Digital Divide -- Old and New Styles and Genres -- Dangers of Digital Text -- Appendix -- Further Reading -- Index -- EULA.The Language Library411.09Gnanadesikan Amalia E998926MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911019855803321The writing revolution4029571UNINA