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Hardcover. Condizione: Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Hardcover. 10" X 7". xi, 473pp. Gentle bumps, creasing, and rubbing to covers, corners, and edges to unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumps to head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that these different fields had in common, while also showing how individual texts and authors manipulated standard techniques of self-authorisation in distinctive ways. It stresses the importance of competitive and assertive styles of self-presentation, and also examines some of the pressures that pulled in the opposite direction by looking at authors who chose to acknowledge the limitations of their own knowledge or resisted close identification with narrow versions of expert identity. A final chapter by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd offers a comparative account of scientific authority and expertise in ancient Chinese, Indian and Mesopotamian culture.(Publisher).

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Paperback. Condizione: New. The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.

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hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. Hardback book in nearly new condition with just a small publisher's 'damaged' stamp to one of the preliminary pages; even so not showing any defects, no splits, no cracks, no pen-marks, just some very minor surface rubbing and moderate shelf wear. Contents are crisp, tight and fresh. Complete with original dustjacket, showing well, sharp and bright. Thus a never read book still in very presentable condition now offered for sale at a sensible price.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Illustrated hard covers. Bump to head of spine. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked -- apparently unused. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 479 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Binding sound, text unmarked. Condizione: Near Fine. Binding curves slightly. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 4th printing. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: xx, 479pp., many illustrations, 25 x 18 cm. No ownership marks.

Condizione: New. This book opens a window onto the book cultures of antiquity, challenging old myths, presenting new research and exploring the implications for ancient science. It examines ancient libraries in the context of cultures of collection and display and reveals t.

Hardcover with dustjacket. Condizione: Gut. XV, 601 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben und mit leichten Randläsuren, Bleistifteintrag auf Vorsatz, eine Seite weist einen Knick auf, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket slightly rubbed and with slight edge wear, pencil entry on endpaper, one page has a big crease, otherwise very good condition. - There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on this material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge-ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the encyclopaedia, and showing instead how the rhetoric and techniques of comprehensive compilation left their mark on a surprising range of texts. In the process it draws attention to both remarkable similarities and striking differences between conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in different periods. The focus is primarily on European/Mediterranean culture. The book covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance culture in turn, and combines chapters which survey whole periods with others focused closely on individual texts as case studies / 1 Introduction Jason Konig and Greg Woolf Part I ClassicalEncyclopaedism 2 Encyclopaedism in the Roman empire Jason Konig and Greg Woolf 3 Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian library Myrto Hatzimichali 4 Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Plinys Natural History Mary Beagon 5 Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek Teresa Morgan 6 Plutarch's corpus of quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism Katerina Oikonomopoulou 7 Artemidorus Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia Daniel Harris-McCoy 8 Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinians Encyclopaedia of Roman law Jill Harries 9 Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge Marco Formisano Part II Medieval Encyclopaedism 10 Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries Paul Magdalino 11 The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts Andras Nemeth 12 Ad maiorem Deigloriam: Joseph Rhakendytes synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen 13 Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen 14 Isidores Etymologies: on words and things Andy Merrills 15 Loose giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock Ian Johnson 16 Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? Elias Muhanna 17 Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers Maaike van Berkel Part III Renaissance Encyclopaedism 18 Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism Ann Blair 19 Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedi some observations Daniel Andersson 20 Reading Plinys ape in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print Paul Dover 21 Shakespeares encyclopaedias Neil Rhodes 22 Big Dig: Dugdales drainage and the dregs of England Claire Preston 23 Irony and encyclopaedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment William N. West Part IV Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript 24 The passion to collect, select and protect: fifteen hundred years of the Chinese encyclopaedia Harriett. Zurndorfer. ISBN 9781107038233 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1369.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that these different fields had in common, while also showing how individual texts and authors manipulated standard techniques of self-authorisation in distinctive ways. It stresses the importance of competitive and assertive styles of self-presentation, and also examines some of the pressures that pulled in the opposite direction by looking at authors who chose to acknowledge the limitations of their own knowledge or resisted close identification with narrow versions of expert identity. A final chapter by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd offers a comparative account of scientific authority and expertise in ancient Chinese, Indian and Mesopotamian culture.