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Intends to critically edit the textual contents of Masoretic notes written in micrographical designs. The author focuses on the Masorah of a 13th-century Northern French scribe, Elijah ben Berechiah ha-Naqdan (alive in 1233-1239), and offers new evidence about the transmission of Biblical and Masoretic knowledge in Western Europe and in Ashkenaz.
Die wichtigsten Akteure im Transfer antiken Wissens ins Frühmittelalter sind die karolingischen Klöster. Die klösterlichen Skriptorien sorgten durch ihre Tätigkeit für die Weitergabe von patristischem und paganem Wissen sowie im Sinne der karolingischen renovatio für die Präsenz korrekter und eindeutiger Schriftzeugnisse. Die einzelnen Beiträge untersuchen die Spuren der zeitgenössischen Träger und Rezipienten, die auf das karolingische Wissenssystem einwirkten und die Vermittlung und Selektion von Wissen steuerten. Dabei stehen Fragen nach dem karolingischen Wissenskanon und der frühmittelalterlichen Gelehrtenkultur im Mittelpunkt. Als Ausgangsbasis der Forschungen dienen in vielen Fällen die handschriftlichen Artefakte des Klosters Lorsch und seine einzigartige Bibliothek, die um die Mitte des 9. Jahrhunderts einen der bedeutendsten europäischen Bücherbestände aufwies.Die vorliegende Publikation bündelt die Beiträge einer im Rahmen des Heidelberger Sonderforschungsbereichs 933 »Materiale Textkulturen« veranstalteten Tagung, die vor allem nach der Organisation und Vermittlung von Wissen in der Karolingerzeit fragte.
Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.
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