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Sign and Design: Script as Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300–1600 CE)
Harvard University Press Cloth: 978-0-88402-407-1 Library of Congress Classification NX650.W75S54 2016 Dewey Decimal Classification 411
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
From antiquity to the modern age, legal, documentary, exegetical, literary, and linguistic traditions have viewed the relationship between image and letter in diverse ways. There is a long history of scholarship examining this relationship, probing the manner and meaning of its dynamics in terms of equivalency, complementarity, and polarity. See other books on: Alphabets & Writing Systems | Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval | Image | Sign | Signs and symbols See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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Sign and Design: Script as Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300–1600 CE)
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Harvard University Press
Cloth: 978-0-88402-407-1
Cloth: 978-0-88402-407-1
From antiquity to the modern age, legal, documentary, exegetical, literary, and linguistic traditions have viewed the relationship between image and letter in diverse ways. There is a long history of scholarship examining this relationship, probing the manner and meaning of its dynamics in terms of equivalency, complementarity, and polarity.
This volume addresses the pictorial dimension of writing systems from cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Historians—including specialists in art and literature—paleographers, and anthropologists consider imagistic scripts of the ancient and medieval Near East, Europe, Byzantium, and Latin America, and within Jewish, polytheistic, Christian, and Muslim cultures. They engage with pictographic, ideographic, and logographic writing systems, as well as with alphabetic scripts, examining diverse examples of cross-pollination between language and art.
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