Guardians of letters [[electronic resource] ] : literacy, power, and the transmitters of early Christian literature / / Kim Haines-Eitzen
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Haines-Eitzen Kim
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| Titolo: |
Guardians of letters [[electronic resource] ] : literacy, power, and the transmitters of early Christian literature / / Kim Haines-Eitzen
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 270.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Christian literature, Early - Rome - History and criticism |
| Transmission of texts - Rome | |
| Scribes - Rome | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-210) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 ""I COPIED EVERYTHING LETTER BY LETTER"": Locating the Copyists of Early Christian Literature; 2 ""GIRLS TRAINED FOR BEAUTIFUL WRITING"": Female Scribes in Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity; 3 ""FOR I COULD NOT FIND THE SYLLABLES"": The Education and Training of Early Christian Scribes; 4 ""MAKE AND SEND ME COPIES"": Private Scribal Networks and the Transmission of Early Christian Literature; 5 ""I AM THE GUARDIAN OF LETTERS"": Contested Readings, Authoritative Texts, and Early Christian Scribes; CONCLUSION; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Who were the scribes who copied early Christian literature during the second and third centuries? What roles did they play in the dissemination of these writings? To answer these questions, this study uses evidence from early Christian literature and the earliest Christian papyri - including their physical features and textual characteristics. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Guardians of letters |
| ISBN: | 0-19-773945-8 |
| 1-280-47340-1 | |
| 0-19-535054-5 | |
| 1-4237-6059-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784978203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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