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Scribes are paradoxically both central and invisible in most societies before the typographic revolution of the 15th century, witnessed by every manuscript, but often elusive as historical figures. The act of writing is a quotidian and vernacular practice as well as a literary one, and must be observed not only in the outputs of literary copyists or reports of their activities, but in the documents of everyday life. This volume collects contributions on scribal practice as it features on diverse media (including papyri, tablets, and inscriptions) in a range of ancient societies, from the Ancient Near East and Dynastic Egypt through the Graeco-Roman world to Byzantium. These discussions of the role and place of scribes and scribal activity in pre-typographic cultures both contribute to a better understanding of one of the key drivers of these cultures, and illuminate the transmission of knowledge and traditions within and between them.

Copyists. --- Scribes. --- Transmission of texts. --- Scribes --- History --- History. --- Scribes, Egyptian --- Scribes, Roman --- Copyists --- Scribes - History --- Scribes - Rome --- Scribes - Egypt

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In a society in which only a fraction of the population was literate and numerate, being one of the few specialists in reading, writing and reckoning meant the possession of an invaluable asset. The fact that the Roman state heavily relied on these professional scribes in financial and legal administration led to their holding a unique position and status. By gathering and analysing the available source material on the Roman scribae, Benjamin Hartmann traces the history of Rome's public scribes from the early Republic to the Later Roman Empire. He tells the story of men of low social origin, who, by means of their specialised knowledge, found themselves at the heart of the Roman polity, in close proximity to the powerful and responsible for the written arcana of the state - a story of knowledge and power, corruption and contested social mobility.

Scribes --- Rome --- Officials and employees --- Scribes, Roman --- Officials and employees. --- E-books --- Employees. --- Scribes. --- Rome (Empire). --- Scribes - Rome --- Rome - Officials and employees

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The 2004 announcement that Chaucer's scribe had been discovered resulted in a paradigm shift in medieval studies. Adam Pynkhurst dominated the classroom, became a fictional character, and led to suggestions that this identification should prompt the abandonment of our understanding of the development of London English and acceptance that the clerks of the Guildhall were promoting vernacular literature as part of a concerted political program. In this meticulously researched study, Lawrence Warner challenges the narratives and conclusions of recent scholarship. In place of the accepted story, Warner provides a fresh, more nuanced one in which many more scribes, anonymous ones, worked in conditions we are only beginning to understand. Bringing to light new information, not least, hundreds of documents in the hand of one of the most important fifteenth-century scribes of Chaucer and Langland, this book represents an important intervention in the field of Middle English studies.

Manuscripts, Medieval --- Scribes --- English literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Copyists

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Scribal practices across disciplines are often explored through divisions between words, stiches and verses, sections, scribal hands and marks, correction and copying procedures. This volume offers a different perspective: writing as shown here is, at its heart, a deeply social practice connecting narrative to the different categories of knowledge (linguistic, political, administrative, legal, historical and geographic) and literacy. The twelve essays investigate how scribal practices are related to the construction of knowledge and challenge the conventional boundaries. They address various types of knowledge whose potential is triggered by certain needs and values in the context of Antiquity, Late Antiquity and Medieval Islam from al-Andalus through Egypt, Syria to Iraq, Anatolia and Bactria as far afield as Ethiopia. The vast majority of the papers are related thematically and the overall connection between the articles is the salient feature of this volume. The papers also demonstrate how the local context has shaped scribal practices allowing for cross-cultural comparison.

Scribes --- Scribes, Jewish. --- Learning and scholarship --- Jewish learning and scholarship. --- Islamic learning and scholarship. --- Learning and scholarship. --- Scribes. --- History --- Medieval. --- 500-1500. --- Egypt. --- Academic collection --- Scribes, Jewish --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Scribes - Egypt --- Learning and scholarship - Egypt --- Learning and scholarship - History - Medieval, 500-1500

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003.21 --- Beeldschriften. Hiërogliefen --- Egyptian language --- Scribes --- Writing, Hieroglyphic. --- 003.21 Beeldschriften. Hiërogliefen --- Scribes, Egyptian --- Egyptian hieroglyphics --- Hieroglyphics, Egyptian --- Writing, Hieroglyphic