Palaeography (History of Writing)

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...