These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity : Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 7 January 2016 / / Jean-Luc Fournet

• Autore: Fournet Jean-Luc
• Pubblicazione: Paris, : Collège de France, 2018
• Soggetto topico: History; Literature; Late Antiquity; papyrology; Egypt; paleography; Greek; multilingualism
• Soggetto non controllato: papyrology; paleography; Egypt; Late Antiquity; Greek; multilingualism
• Altri autori: FournetJean-Luc GrimalNicolas
• Sommario/riassunto: Papyrology, which burgeoned in the nineteenth century after the discovery of thousands of papyri in Egypt, consists in the study of Greek and Latin texts written on a transportable medium (papyrus, clay potsherds, wooden tablets or parchment). While inscriptions and literary sources can render a normative, idealized and sometimes deformed image of individuals, papyri – no matter how fragmented they may be – take us into their daily lives, thus making possible the archaeology of cultural practices. Attempting to decipher “these shreds, guardians of the human memory” – to paraphrase Leonardo de Vinci – is the challenge of the papyrologist, who ceaselessly renews our knowledge of the past.
• Altri titoli varianti: These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory
• Titolo autorizzato: These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity
• ISBN: 2-7226-0500-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910294541503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II