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Cultural Studies; Manuscripts Philology

Stemming from the Sanskrit Manuscripts Project that ran in Cambridge (UK) in 2011-2014 and led to the cataloguing and partial digitization of the rich collections of South Asian manuscripts in the University Library, these essays explore the manuscript culture of India and beyond – Nepal, Cambodia, Tibet – from a variety of angles: books as artefacts, works of art, commodities, staples of tradition, and of course as repositories of knowledge.

The study is aimed at providing definitions for important terms that have specialized meaning in the Ethiopian manuscript culture. Terms related with lemmatized entry are also given under the same entry and marked as synonyms. The entries are arranged alphabetically following the Latin alphabetical order.

What do Mesoamerica, Greece, Byzantium, Island, Chad, Ethiopia, India, Tibet, China and Japan have in common? Like many other cultures of the world, they share a particular form of cultural heritage: ancient handwritten documents. This volume offers in 16 articles on philological, cultural, and material aspects of manuscripts a common ground across disciplines and cultures.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a New Model of Fragmented History -- PART I Theory and Historiography -- 1 Historiography of Texts: From Literacy to Literacy Practices within the Anglo-Saxon School of Thought -- 2 Scribal Culture in Transnational Perspective -- 3 Local and Global Perspectives as Platforms for Barefoot Historians: A Microhistorical Approach -- PART II The Structure of Culture and Education -- 4 Setting the Scene within the Hard Rock of Reality -- 5 Vernacular Literacy between Two Campaigns -- 6 Emotions and Education -- PART III Barefoot Historians and their Everyday Life -- 7 Childhood, Local Culture, and Educational Processes -- 8 A Quest for a Space-A No-Place: Scribal Communities as Institutional Structures -- 9 Solidarity with Substance: "History Is no Respecter of Persons, It Depicts both High and Low" -- 10 Postscript: Cornerstone for a Creative Space in the Nineteenth Century -- Bibliography -- Index.

Selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging texts and visual signs in manuscripts appear to be universal practices. This volume analyses the fascinating vicissitudes of birth and development, growth and decrease, of manuscripts consisting of more texts ('multiple-text manuscripts'), at the example of a vast array of manuscript cultures, from the Indian, African, Christian, Islamic, and European domains.

The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without geographical or other limitations on the material studied; it contributes to a historical and systematic survey of manuscript cultures, and provides a new foundation for current discussions in Cultural Studies.

Crossing disciplinary and regional boundaries, this book takes a comparative perspective on standardisation tendencies in Arabic-based writing systems across three continents. 12 distinct manuscript traditions are presented in situations where different cultures, languages and scripts interact, yielding a wide range of case studies. A wealth of new data gives insight into the factors underlying uniformity and variation in manuscript cultures.

The archive is traditionally considered the counterpart of the library, the one storing records, the other housing "books." There is evidence, however, that this institutional division of labor reflects certain historical and social constellations. The present volume addresses the question of this complex interrelationship with case-studies from an impressive variety of ancient, traditional, and living cultures.