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  • Understanding Relations Between Scripts II

    Early Alphabets

    Edited by Philippa M. Steele, Philip J. Boyes ...
    Series Book 1 - Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
    Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices

    Edited by Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele, Natalia Elvira Astoreca ...
    Series Book 2 - Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
    Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life. The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices explores these relationships in a number of different cultural contexts and from ... Read more

    $38.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean

    by Philippa M. Steele ...
    Series Book 7 - Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
    Establishes an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical framework that enables a new outlook for writing studies and the development of more convincing explanations for a number of unusual features of the early Aegean scripts.Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practiced by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and ... Read more

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  • Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean

    Practices and Adaptations

    Edited by Philippa M. Steele, Philip J. Boyes ...
    Series Book 6 - Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
    Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes – from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume presents a ... Read more

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  • The Early Greek Alphabets

    Origin, Diffusion, Uses

    Edited by Robert Parker, Philippa M. Steele ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
    The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest attestations show a very great degree of diversity, as areas of the Greek-speaking world established their own regional variants. This volume ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus

    The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600–300 BC

    by Philippa M. Steele ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    This pioneering volume approaches the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus from an interdisciplinary point of view, with a primarily linguistic and epigraphic approach supplemented by a consideration of their historical and cultural context. The focus is on furthering our knowledge of the non-Greek languages/scripts, as well as appreciating their place in relation to the much better understood ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus

    by Philippa M. Steele ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    From its first adoption of writing at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, ancient Cyprus was home to distinctive scripts and writing habits, often setting it apart from other areas of the Mediterranean and Near East. This well-illustrated volume is the first to explore the development and importance of Cypriot writing over a period of more than 1,500 years in the second and first millennia BC. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context

    Edited by Philippa M. Steele ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    This volume offers a new and interdisciplinary treatment of syllabic writing in ancient Cyprus. A team of distinguished scholars tackles epigraphic, palaeographic, linguistic, archaeological, historical and terminological problems relating to the island's writing systems in the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, from the appearance of writing around the fifteenth century down to the end of the first ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    by John Chadwick ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it ... Read more

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  • A History of Writing

    by Steven Roger Fischer ...
    Series series Globalities
    From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a form that everyone can follow. The author also reveals his own discoveries made since the early 1980s, making it a ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Monsters

    Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    by David Wengrow ...
    Series series The Rostovtzeff Lectures
    It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and isolated in the art of the prehistoric era. Instead it was with the rise of cities, elites, and ... Read more

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  • Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean

    Edited by Cecilie Brøns, Marie-Louise Nosch ...
    Series Book 31 - Ancient Textiles
    Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated how textiles played a large and very important role in the ancient Mediterranean sanctuaries. In ... Read more

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