Reading papyri, writing ancient history /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Approaching the ancient world.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: History and papyri
- 1. culture of papyrus
- 2. Ancient and modern choices in documentation
- Languages and scripts
- Who wrote what
- Survival of papyri
- Restoring and using damaged papyri
- 3. Particular and general
- Understanding individual documents
- Archives and dossiers
- Museum archaeology and archives
- Synthesizing dispersed texts
- Joining papyri to other evidence
- 4. Time and place
- Stratifying material
- broader Mediterranean context
- Province and empire
- chronological axis
- 5. Quantification
- Patterns of land ownership
- Textile production
- Wine production
- Demography
- Religious conversion
- Mathematics and networks
- 6. Asking questions
- Other ancient texts
- Anthropology and the papyri
- Post-colonial studies and Ptolemaic Egypt
- Gender studies and the papyri
- Papyri and the history of emotions
- New institutional economics
- 7. digital revolution
- Failing cheaply
- impact of digital imaging
- Digital resources and onomastics
- Linked open data
- 8. Continuity and renewal
- durability of philology
- challenge of a larger context
- Limits and prospects.