Collect and preserve : institutional contexts of epistemic knowledge in pre-modern societies. / edited by Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jochem Kahl, and Eun-Jung Lee.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Collaborative Research Centre 980 “Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period”.

Collaborative Research Centre 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"

Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva Christiane, editor.

Kahl, Jochem, editor.

Lee, Eun-Jung, editor.

Engert, Michaela, editor.

Conference Name:

Scholarship between clay and light. Libraries, archives and documents in the Eastern world (2015 : Berlin)

Series:

Episteme in Bewegung ; 9.

Episteme in Bewegung ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archives--History--To 500.

Archives.

History.

Archives--Egypt--History--To 500.

Archives--Middle East--History--To 500.

Archives--Japan--History--500-1500.

Archives--Korea--History.

Libraries--History--To 400.

Libraries.

Knowledge, Theory of--History.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Egypt.

Japan.

Korea.

Middle East.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : 48 illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1. Auflage.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2021.

Summary:

The use of writing for the preservation and transmission of administrative, scientific, literary and sacred knowledge has a long history. From the third millennium BCE on, many forms of social processes - intellectual, religious, political and others - have been increasingly materialized in the form of a variety of document types (tablets, bones, papyri, scrolls, parchments, books). Some of them were collected in archives or libraries that were dependent on royal palaces, governmental institutions and temples but also in private contexts. The publication 'Collect and Preserve' assembles a number of studies devoted to material aspects of collecting texts in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Qumran, Medieval Japan, and Korea under the Choson-Dynasty (1392?-1910).

Contents:

Introduction

The Epistemic Legacy: Studying the collection, preservation, and transfer of knowledge in premodern societies / Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jochem Kahl, Eun-Jeung Lee

Ancient Egypt : The Storage of Papyri in Ancient Egypt / Kim Ryholt

The Egyptian Tomb as an Epistemic Site / Jochem Kahl

Ancient Mesopotamia: The network of the Babylonian Libraries in the First Millennium BC / Philippe Clancier

Citation and Counter-citation in Classical Sumerian Scholastic Dialogue / J. Cale Johnson

Japan: The Hōzō, Treasure House, as Topos of Knowledge or Archive: The Formation and Expansion of the Legacy of Intellectual Knowledge in Japan / Yasurō Abe

Korea: "No Books to Leave, No Women to Enter": Confucian Academies in Pre-Modern Korea and Their Book Collections / Vladim̕r Glomb ; Eun-Jeung Lee

The Archives of the P'ungsan Ryu Clan / Myungja Kim

The Libraries of Royal Palaces in the Late Choson Dynasty / Ok Young Jung.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference. From the preface, "The international workshop 'Scholarship between clay and light. Libraries, archives and documents in the Eastern world' took place from 5th to 7th November 2015. ... at the Freie Universität Berlin" -- Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783447108294

3447108290

OCLC:

1016585208

Publisher Number:

99987867448