Documenting the Australian Research Council project: Knowledge Transfer and Administrative Professionalism in a Pre-Typographic Society
Macquarie University, 27-28 September 2013
This workshop will examine scribal practice in the pre-modern societies of the Mediterranean world and adjoining cultures, from the ancient Near East, through the Egyptian and Classical worlds, to Byzantium and Renaissance Europe, by means of close analysis of the original manuscripts.
Project description, registration, abstracts & more informations on Scribal Practice
Contributions :
Rodney Ast (University of Heidelberg) – Lectional Signs in Greek Documents as Indicators of Scribal Practice and Training
Marie-Pierre Chaufray (University of Bordeaux 3) – Scribal Practice in Dime
Malcolm Choat (Macquarie University, Sydney) and Korshi Dosoo (Macquarie University, Sydney) – The Use of Abbreviations in Duplicate Documents from Roman Egypt
Jennifer Cromwell (Macquarie University, Sydney) – Tax, Palaeography, and Coptic Scribes in the Early Islamic Administration
Hans Förster & Ulrike Swoboda (University of Vienna) – Copying Translated Texts: The Example of the Sahidic Version of the Gospel of John
Laura Hawkins (Wolfson College, University of Oxford) – The Adaptation of Cuneiform to Write Semitic
Didier Lafleur (CNRS, Paris) – Scribal Habits and Ancient Textual Tradition: The Case of Family 13 Greek New Testament Manuscripts
Jacob Lauinger (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) – Observing Neo-Assyrian Scribes at Work: The Production of the Manuscripts of the So-Called “Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty”
Marc Malevez (Free University of Brussels) – Scribal Peculiarities in Ethiopia
Elena Martin Gonzalez (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens) – Scribes at Work in Archaic Greece
Natalie Naomi May (Free University of Berlin) – Babylonian Scribes: Paleographers and Forgers
Delphine Nactergaele (Ghent University) – Scribes in the Greek Private Papyrus Letters
Pamela O’Neill (University of Sydney) – The Scribe and Medieval Irish Law
Ken Parry (Macquarie University, Sydney) – Monastic Scribal Practice in Early Ninth-Century Byzantium: The Example of Theodore the Stoudite
Andrew Pleffer (Macquarie University, Sydney) – Signs, Signatories and Scribes: The Function of Scribal Markings in the Fourth Century Aramaic ostraca
Lucian Reinfandt (University of Vienna) – Scribal Traditions, Social Change, and the Emergence of a Caliphal Administration (642-800 AD)
Francesca Schironi (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) – Saving the Ivory Tower from Oblivion: The Role of Scribes in Preserving Alexandrian Scholarship
Anthony Spalinger (University of Auckland) – The Story of Wenamun: Scribal Arrangements and Oddities
Valeria Tezzon (Humboldt University, Berlin) – How many scribes in P.Berol.13270? New considerations about the handwriting
Norman Underwood (University of California, Berkeley) – Mirroring Byzantium: Scribes, Dukes, and Literature on Leadership in 10th and 11th Century Southern Italy
Marja Vierros (University of Helsinki) – Scribes and Other Writers in the Petra Papyri
Gareth Wearne (Macquarie University, Sydney) – The Role of the Scribe in the Composition of Personal Letters in Ancient Israel and Judah
Nick Wyatt (University of Edinburgh) – Ilimilku the Elusive
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