Dynamic Epigraphy

New Approaches to Inscriptions

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2022
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78925-789-2 (ISBN)

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Explores creative new approaches to epigraphy aiming to push the boundaries of the discipline and demonstrate the analytical fruits of interdisciplinary approaches to inscribed material.

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to 'shake up' how we deal with inscriptions. Broad themes include the embodied experience of epigraphy, the unique capacities of epigraphic language as a genre, the visuality of inscriptions and the interplay of inscriptions with literary texts. Although each chapter focuses on specific objects and epigraphic landscapes, ranging from Republican Rome to early modern Scotland, the emphasis here is on using these case studies not as an end in themselves, but as a means of exploring broader methodological and theoretical issues to do with how we use inscriptions as evidence, both for the Greco-Roman world and for other time periods.

Drawing on conversations from fields such as archaeology and anthropology, philology, art history, linguistics and history, contributors also seek to push the boundaries of epigraphy as a discipline and to demonstrate the analytical fruits of interdisciplinary approaches to inscribed material. Methodologies such as phenomenology, translingualism, intertextuality and critical fabulation are deployed to offer new perspectives on the social functions of inscriptions as texts and objects and to open up new horizons for the use of inscriptions as evidence for past societies.

Eleri H. Cousins is Lecturer in Roman History at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on the material culture of the western Roman Empire and the role of religion in provincial Roman society.

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Editor’s acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Thoughts on the nature of inscriptions

Eleri H. Cousins

2. Towards a theoretical model of the epigraphic landscape

Kelsey Jackson Williams

3. Materializing epigraphy: Archaeological and sociolinguistic approaches to Roman inscribed spindle whorls

Alex Mullen

4. Written to be (un)read, written to be seen: Beyond Latin codes in Latin epigraphy

M. Cristina de la Escosura Balbás, Elena Duce Pastor and David Serrano Lozano

5. Epigraphic strategies of communication: The visual accusative of Roman Republican dedications of spoils

Fabio Luci

6. Inscribing the artistic space: Blurred boundaries on Romano-British tombstones

Hanneke Salisbury

7. When poetry comes to its senses: Inscribed Roman verse and the human sensorium

Chiara Cenati, Victoria González Berdús and Peter Kruschwitz

8. Lassi viatores: Poetic consumption between Martial’s Epigrams and the Carmina Latina Epigraphica

Alessandra Tafaro

9. Epigraphy and critical fabulation: Imagining narratives of Greco-Roman sexual slavery

Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson

Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	B/w and colour
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Paläografie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78925-789-1 / 1789257891
ISBN-13	978-1-78925-789-2 / 9781789257892
Zustand	Neuware