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oapen-20.500.12657-862562023-12-23T02:34:02Z Synopses and Lists Bernheimer, Teresa Vollandt, Ronny Textual practices;Pre-Modern Societies;Synopses and Lists;Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad;Late Antiquity;Intellectual Traditions bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CB Language: reference & general bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CJ Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFA Philosophy of language Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call management of knowledge in a time before our own. The present volume is the product of two workshops held in 2019 and 2021 as part of the research focus Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World: Texts and Ideas between Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad, which was generously supported and funded by the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. Aiming to understand how synopses and lists function in the literatures of the great intellectual traditions of late antiquity—the ancient Near East, ancient philosophy, and the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the volume offers a historical and transcultural perspective on synopses and lists, highlighting the centrality of these textual practices to allow storing, retrieving, selecting, and organising this knowledge. Both make deliberate – yet not always explicit – choices as to what is included and excluded, thereby creating lasting hierarchies and canons. 2023-12-20T11:01:34Z 2023-12-20T11:01:34Z 2023 book 9781805111184 9781800649163 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86256 eng Semitic Languages and Cultures application/pdf Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781805111481.pdf https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0375 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0375 10.11647/OBP.0375 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781805111184 9781800649163 ScholarLed 22 410 Cambridge open access
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Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call management of knowledge in a time before our own.
The present volume is the product of two workshops held in 2019 and 2021 as part of the research focus Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World: Texts and Ideas between Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad, which was generously supported and funded by the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. Aiming to understand how synopses and lists function in the literatures of the great intellectual traditions of late antiquity—the ancient Near East, ancient philosophy, and the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the volume offers a historical and transcultural perspective on synopses and lists, highlighting the centrality of these textual practices to allow storing, retrieving, selecting, and organising this knowledge. Both make deliberate – yet not always explicit – choices as to what is included and excluded, thereby creating lasting hierarchies and canons.
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