Synopses and Lists

Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understa...

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description Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call management of knowledge in a time before our own. The present volume is the product of two workshops held in 2019 and 2021 as part of the research focus Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World: Texts and Ideas between Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad, which was generously supported and funded by the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. Aiming to understand how synopses and lists function in the literatures of the great intellectual traditions of late antiquity—the ancient Near East, ancient philosophy, and the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the volume offers a historical and transcultural perspective on synopses and lists, highlighting the centrality of these textual practices to allow storing, retrieving, selecting, and organising this knowledge. Both make deliberate – yet not always explicit – choices as to what is included and excluded, thereby creating lasting hierarchies and canons.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1321212025-03-20T17:32:31Z Synopses and Lists Bernheimer, Teresa Vollandt, Ronny Textual practices;Pre-Modern Societies;Synopses and Lists;Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad;Late Antiquity;Intellectual Traditions Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call management of knowledge in a time before our own. The present volume is the product of two workshops held in 2019 and 2021 as part of the research focus Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World: Texts and Ideas between Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad, which was generously supported and funded by the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. Aiming to understand how synopses and lists function in the literatures of the great intellectual traditions of late antiquity—the ancient Near East, ancient philosophy, and the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the volume offers a historical and transcultural perspective on synopses and lists, highlighting the centrality of these textual practices to allow storing, retrieving, selecting, and organising this knowledge. Both make deliberate – yet not always explicit – choices as to what is included and excluded, thereby creating lasting hierarchies and canons. 2023-12-21T04:04:59Z 2023-12-21T04:04:59Z 2023-12-20T11:01:34Z 2023 book OCN: 1415825306 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86256 9781805111184 9781800649163 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/132121 eng Semitic Languages and Cultures open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86256/1/9781805111481.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86256/1/9781805111481.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86256/1/9781805111481.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86256/1/9781805111481.pdf Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0375 10.11647/OBP.0375 b014b543-78bd-4c3b-bc71-b68e2ac855b9 9781805111184 9781800649163 ScholarLed 410 Cambridge open access
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