This edited volume includes a compilation of new approaches to the investigation of inscriptions from different cultural contexts. Innovative research questions about "material text cultures" are examined with reference to Classical Athens, late ancient and Byzantine churches and urban spaces, Hellenistic and Roman cities, and medieval buildings.
Author(s): Irene Berti, Katharina Bolle, Fanny Opdenhoff, Fabian Stroth (eds.)
Series: Schriftenreihe des Sonderforschungsbereichs 933. Materiale Textkulturen, 14
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2017
Language: English, German
Pages: VIII+396
City: Berlin
Acknowledgements v
Irene Berti, Katharina Bolle, Fanny Opdenhoff, Fabian Stroth / Introduction 1
Theoretical and Methodical Approaches Around and About Writing
Ludger Lieb and Ricarda Wagner / Dead Writing Matters? Materiality and Presence in Medieval German Narrations of Epitaphs 15
Alexander Starre / Social Texts: How to Account for the Cultural Work of Carrier Media 27
Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais / Das synaktive Potential von Beischriften 43
Text Spaces
Irene Berti und Péter Kató / Listen im öffentlichen Raum hellenistischer Städte 79
Eeva-Maria Viitanen and Laura Nissin / Campaigning for Votes in Ancient Pompeii: Contextualizing Electoral 'Programmata' 117
Georgios Pallis / Messages from a Sacred Space: The Function of the Byzantine Sanctuary Barrier Inscriptions (9th–14th centuries) 145
Inscribed Monuments and Memory
Julia L. Shear / Writing Past and Present in Hellenistic Athens: The Honours for Demosthenes 161
Milena Melfi / The Stele of Polybios: Art, Text and Context in Second-Century BC Greece 191
Elizabeth A. Meyer / Inscribing in Columns in Fifth-Century Athens 205
Writing Practices: Seeing, Perceiving and Acting with Inscriptions
Andreas Rhoby / Text as Art? Byzantine Inscriptions and Their Display 265
Vincent Debiais / Writing on Medieval Doors: The Surveyor Angel on the Moissac Capital (ca. 1100) 285
Wilfried E. Keil / Von sichtbaren und verborgenen Signaturen an mittelalterlichen Kirchen 309
Rebecca R. Benefiel / Urban and Suburban Attitudes to Writing on Walls? Pompeii and Environs 353
Notes on Contributors 375
Index 379
