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An edition of Writing, society and culture in early Rus, c. 950-1300 (2002)

Writing, society and culture in early Rus, c. 950-1300

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xv, 325 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
325

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Subjects

Written communication, Communication and culture, History, Nonfiction, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Literacy

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Kievan Rus
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Table of Contents

Contents … vii
List of illustrations … vii
Acknowledgements … ix
Note on transliteration, citation and terminology … x
List of abbreviations … xiii
Map: Rus and adjacent lands, 10th-13th centuries … xvi
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Introduction … 1
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I. THE GRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT:
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1. THE WRITTEN REMAINS … 16
Describing writing: categories, principles … 16
Primary writing … 21
Secondary writing … 47
Tertiary writing … 70
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2. SCRIPTS AND LANGUAGES … 83
Slavonic … 83
Greek … 101
‘Latin’ … 106
Runes … 110
Other scripts … 115
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3. THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT … 120
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II. FUNCTIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF WRITING:
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4. WRITING AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION … 129
Types of administrative writing … 129
Normative writing: codes, rule-lists … 132
Contingent writing: documents in administration … 160
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5. WRITING AND LEARNING … 187
Writing about writing: the alphabet … 187
Learning about writing: a literate education … 202
‘Equi-valent’ writing: language and translation … 206
‘Writers’ … 217
Writing about learning: ‘bookmen’, ‘philosophers’ … 223
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6. WRITING AND PICTURES … 229
Reading pictures: (i) some traditional views … 229
The multimedia graphic environment: reading a church … 233
Reading pictures: (ii) implicit readings? … 241
Real readers? Writing about pictures … 248
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7. WRITING AND MAGIC … 255
Perspectives and definitions … 255
Writing about magic … 259
Magical writings … 264
Writing as magic? … 272
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8. AFTERWORD: ON THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF WRITING … 275
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Illustrations 1-14 … between pages 279 and 280
Bibliography … 280
Index … 309

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-308) and index.

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Cambridge, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
302.2/244/0947
Library of Congress
P211.3.K54 F73 2002, P211.3.K54 F7318 2010

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xv, 325 p.
Number of pages
325
Dimensions
24 cm

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3954098M
Internet Archive
writingsocietycu00fran
ISBN 10
0521813816
ISBN 13
9780521813815
LCCN
2001052857, 2010522780
OCLC/WorldCat
48397799, 228301827, 56213081, 427491406, 465032081, 70751157, 237630513, 271788114, 670077593
Library Thing
2053941
Goodreads
2939230

Work Identifiers

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OL2980941W

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Work Description

This book provides a thorough survey and innovative analysis of the emergence and functions of written culture in Rus (covering roughly the modern East Slav lands of European Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). Part I introduces the full range of types of writing: the scripts and languages, the materials, the social and physical contexts, ranging from builders' scratches on bricks through to luxurious parchment manuscripts. Part II presents a series of thematic studies of the 'socio-cultural dynamics' of writing, in order to reveal and explain distinctive features in the Rus assimilation of the technology. The comparative approach means that the book may also serve as a case-study for those with a broader interest either in medieval uses of writing or in the social and cultural history of information technologies. Overall, the impressive scholarship and idiosyncratic wit of this volume commend it to students and specialists in Russian history and literature alike. Awarded the Alec Nove Prize, given by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies for the best book of 2002 in Russian, Soviet or Post-Soviet studies.

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