Palaeography (History of Writing)

This book provides a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of 98 typologically diverse minority languages in Southern China. A number of important...

The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today. Uniquely, thi...

Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe, the alphabet and its invent...

The Victorians and English Dialect tells the story of the Victorians' discovery of English dialect, and of the revaluation of local language that w...

This book is a quick and easy way to learn the second 100 basic Chinese traditional characters.The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese lang...

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an atte...

Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores,...

Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary s...

Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances of planning, execution, and ...

Over 5,000 years ago, the history of humanity radically changed direction when writing was invented in Sumer, the southern part of present-day Iraq...

Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragme...

The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest ...

Writing and the Ancient State explores the early development of writing and its relationship to the growth of political structures. The first part ...

This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, 14701585, spanning the reigns of Edward IV to Elizabe...

Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2-80), was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. But Kircher is most famous - o...

Learn and practice how to write Chinese characters with this handy workbook!This essential workbook is designed for beginners to learn to write Chi...

Where does the ampersand get its name from? What does the hashtag have to do with commerce in ancient Rome? Keith Houston gives the answers in this...

Basic Tagalog is a friendly and accessible resource, providing beginning language learners with support, structure and thorough explanations.This i...