Palaeography (History of Writing)

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...

Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuali...

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes some new theoretical contributi...

Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and a...

Explores the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared. During the long fifteenth c...

Reveals the esoteric mysteries encoded in the order of the alphabet. Our alphabet hides a Mystery older than its magic of turning sound into shapes...

Writing has been invented four times in human history, by the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Chinese, and the Mayans. Each of these peoples develope...

'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . ....

This book presents the results of a series of literacy experiments in ten Niger-Congo languages, representing four language families and spanning f...