Writing matters: presenting and perceiving monumental inscriptions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Im Mittelpunkt des Sammelbandes steht die Frage nach der Bedeutung, die der schriftlichen Fixierung öffentlicher Botschaften wie privater Mitteilungen im öffentlichen Raum der Antike, Spätantike und Mittelalter zukam. Inschriften befanden sich - damals wie heute - auf Mauern und Wänden von Häus...

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Other Authors: Berti, Irene (Editor) , Bolle, Katharina (Editor) , Opdenhoff, Fanny (Editor) , Stroth, Fabian (Editor)
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
German
Published: Berlin Boston De Gruyter 21. August 2017
Series:Materiale Textkulturen Band 14
In: Materiale Textkulturen (Band 14)

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DOI:10.1515/9783110534597
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Author Notes:edited by Irene Berti, Katharina Bolle, Fanny Opdenhoff and Fabian Stroth
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical and Methodical Approaches Around and About Writing
  • Dead Writing Matters?
  • Social Texts: How to Account for the Cultural Work of Carrier Media
  • Das synaktive Potential von Beischriften
  • Text Spaces
  • Listen im öffentlichen Raum hellenistischer Städte
  • Campaigning for Votes in Ancient Pompeii: Contextualizing Electoral Programmata
  • Messages from a Sacred Space: The Function of the Byzantine Sanctuary Barrier Inscriptions (9th–14th centuries)
  • Inscribed Monuments and Memory
  • Writing Past and Present in Hellenistic Athens: The Honours for Demosthenes
  • The Stele of Polybios
  • Inscribing in Columns in Fifth-Century Athens
  • Writing Practices: Seeing, Perceiving and Acting with Inscriptions
  • Text as Art? Byzantine Inscriptions and Their Display
  • Writing on Medieval Doors
  • Von sichtbaren und verborgenen Signaturen an mittelalterlichen Kirchen
  • Urban and Suburban Attitudes to Writing on Walls? Pompeii and Environs
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index