LEADER 04014nam 22005295 450 001 9910255096503321 005 20240318131625.0 010 $a9783319541365 010 $a3319541366 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-54136-5 035 $a(CKB)3780000000451237 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4939921 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-54136-5 035 $a(Perlego)3496724 035 $a(EXLCZ)993780000000451237 100 $a20170807d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aApproaches to the History of Written Culture $eA World Inscribed /$fedited by Martyn Lyons, Rita Marquilhas 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (277 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aNew Directions in Book History,$x2634-6125 311 08$a9783319541358 311 08$a3319541358 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. A World Inscribed - Introduction -- 2. The Babylonian Scribes and their Libraries -- 3. Writings in the Korean Han'g?l Script by and for the Women of Chos?n Korea -- 4. Paper World: The Materiality of Loss in the Pre-modern Age -- 5. Writings on the Streets: Ephemeral Texts and Public Space in the Early Modern Hispanic World -- 6. Writing One's Life: The French School of the Anthropology of Writing -- 7. Calendar, Chronicle and Songs of Sorrows: Generic Sources of Life Writing in Nineteenth-Century Finland -- 8. Reading the 'Cheyenne Letter': Towards a Typology of Inscription Beyond the Alphabet -- 9. The Scribal Culture of Children: A Fragmentary History -- 10. Policing Writing in the City, 1852-1945: The Invention of Scriptural Delinquency -- 11. QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices -- 12. The Future of the History of Writing -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"Approaches to the History of Written Culture is a volume of breadth and ambition. It covers all periods from the second millennium BC to the late twentieth-century, a wide range of geographies, and deploys a challenging body of theoretical and methodological approaches to the topic of scribal cultures and practices." - David Vincent, Emeritus Professor of Social History, The Open University, UK This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or 'ordinary' writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of 'pre-literate' societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private uses are examined. In ten studies, presented by leading historians of scribal culture from seven countries, the book investigates the uses of writing in non-alphabeticalas well as alphabetical script, in societies ranging from Native America and ancient Korea to modern Europe. The authors emphasise the material characteristics of writing, and in so doing they pose questions about the definition of writing itself. Drawing on expertise in various disciplines, they give an up-to-date account of the current state of knowledge in a field at the forefront of 'Book History'. 410 0$aNew Directions in Book History,$x2634-6125 606 $aBooks$xHistory 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aHistory of the Book 606 $aCultural History 615 0$aBooks$xHistory. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 14$aHistory of the Book. 615 24$aCultural History. 676 $a411.09 702 $aLyons$b Martyn$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aMarquilhas$b Rita$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255096503321 996 $aApproaches to the History of Written Culture$92119212 997 $aUNINA