03854nam 2200757Ia 450 991096702010332120200520144314.09786612646508978128264650612826465089780226803074022680307410.7208/9780226803074(CKB)2670000000029721(EBL)547718(OCoLC)646068367(SSID)ssj0000424865(PQKBManifestationID)12165400(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424865(PQKBWorkID)10475092(PQKB)11027727(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122575(MiAaPQ)EBC547718(DE-B1597)524928(DE-B1597)9780226803074(Perlego)1852406(EXLCZ)99267000000002972120100115d2010 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrParchment, paper, pixels law and the technologies of communication /Peter M. Tiersma1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20101 online resource (270 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226803067 0226803066 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --1. Introduction --2. Speech, Writing, and Text --3. Wills --4. Contracts --5. Statutes --6. Judicial Opinions and the Concept of Precedent --7. Conclusion --Notes --IndexTechnological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society-perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empires, the memorializing of private legal transactions, and the broad distribution of judicial precedents and legislation. Yet each of these technologies has its shadow side: written or printed texts easily become static and the textual practices of the legal profession can frustrate ordinary citizens, who may be bound by documents whose implications they scarcely understand. Parchment, Paper, Pixels offers an engaging exploration of the impact of three technological revolutions on the law. Beginning with the invention of writing, continuing with the mass production of identical copies of legal texts brought about by the printing press, and ending with a discussion of computers and the Internet, Peter M. Tiersma traces the journey of contracts, wills, statutes, judicial opinions, and other legal texts through the past and into the future. Though the ultimate effects of modern technologies on our legal system remain to be seen, Parchment, Paper, Pixels offers readers an insightful guide as to how our shifting forms of technological literacy have shaped and continue to shape the practice of law today.Technology and lawCommunication in lawCommunication and technologyCommunicationTechnological innovationsLawTechnological innovationsLawInformation technologyLegal documentsTechnology and law.Communication in law.Communication and technology.CommunicationTechnological innovations.LawTechnological innovations.LawInformation technology.Legal documents.343.09/9Tiersma Peter Meijes1807667MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967020103321Parchment, paper, pixels4362083UNINA03273oam 2200541I 450 991095328350332120251117090101.01-315-23512-910.4324/9781315235127 (CKB)3710000001081843(MiAaPQ)EBC4817335(Au-PeEL)EBL4817335(CaPaEBR)ebr11356505(OCoLC)975225182(OCoLC)974642531(FINmELB)ELB139207(BIP)59818019(BIP)9952496(EXLCZ)99371000000108184320180706e20162004 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierVandals, Romans and Berbers new perspectives on late antique North Africa /edited by A.H. MerrillsLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (364 pages) illustrations, mapsFirst published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-4145-7 1-351-87611-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. African identities -- pt. 2. Written culture -- pt. 3. The African church in context.The birth, growth and decline of the Vandal and Berber Kingdoms in North Africa have often been forgotten in studies of the late Roman and post-Roman West. Although recent archaeological activity has alleviated this situation, the vast and disparate body of written evidence from the region remains comparatively neglected. The present volume attempts to redress this imbalance through an examination of the changing cultural landscape of 5th- and 6th-century North Africa. Many questions that have been central within other areas of Late Antique studies are here asked of the North African evidence for the first time. Vandals, Romans and Berbers considers issues of ethnicity, identity and state formation within the Vandal kingdoms and the Berber polities, through new analysis of the textual, epigraphic and archaeological record. It reassesses the varied body of written material that has survived from Africa, and questions its authorship, audience and function, as well as its historical value to the modern scholar. The final section is concerned with the religious changes of the period, and challenges many of the comfortable certainties that have arisen in the consideration of North African Christianity, including the tensions between 'Donatist', Catholic and Arian, and the supposed disappearance of the faith after the Arab conquest. Throughout, attempts are made to assess the relation of Vandal and Berber states to the wider world and the importance of the African evidence to the broader understanding of the post-Roman world.VandalsAfrica, NorthHistoryVandalsAfricaIntellectual lifeAfrica, NorthHistoryTo 647VandalsHistory.VandalsIntellectual life.939/.703Merrills A. H(Andrew H.),1975-623163MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953283503321Vandals, Romans and Berbers4472718UNINA