Ancient Knowledge Networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robson, Eleanor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2019.

Summary:

Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical abbreviations; Museum and excavation sigla; Dating conventions; Editorial conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. From 'Ashurbanipal's Library' and the 'stream of tradition' to new approaches to cuneiform scholarship; 3. Trust in Nabu? Assyrian royal attitudes to court scholarship; 4. The writing-board was at my house: Scholarly and textual mobility in seventh-century Assyria; 5. Grasping the righteous sceptre: Nabu, scholarship and the kings of Babylonia 6. At the gate of Eanna: Babylonian scholarly spaces before and after the early fifth century 7. Conclusions: Towards a social geography of cuneiform scholarship; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (UCL Press, viewed May 13, 2023).