Synopses and Lists : Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World / edited by Teresa Bernheimer, Ronny Vollandt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernheimer, Teresa, editor.

Vollandt, Ronny, editor.

Series:

Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures ; v. 22.

Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures, ; v.22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 382 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call management of knowledge in a time before our own. The present volume is the product of two workshops held in 2019 and 2021 as part of the research focus Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World: Texts and Ideas between Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad, which was generously supported and funded by the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. Aiming to understand how synopses and lists function in the literatures of the great intellectual traditions of late antiquity-the ancient Near East, ancient philosophy, and the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-the volume offers a historical and transcultural perspective on synopses and lists, highlighting the centrality of these textual practices to allow storing, retrieving, selecting, and organising this knowledge. Both make deliberate - yet not always explicit - choices as to what is included and excluded, thereby creating lasting hierarchies and canons.

Contents:

Introduction / Teresa Bernheimer, Ronny Vollandt

Quotations for Lexical Lists and Other Texts in Later Mesopotamian Commentaries / Enrique Jiménez

A Rabbinic Epistemic Genre: Creating Knowledge through Lists and Catalogues / Lennard Lehmhaus

The Unruly Books of Abdisho of Nisibis: Book Lists, Canon Discourse, and the Quest for Lost Writings / Liv Ingeborg Lied

A List in Three Versions: Revisiting al-Kindi's On Definitions / Peter Tarras

A Syriac List of the Names of the Wives of the Patriarchs in BL Add 14620 / Matthew Monger

Revisiting Lists in Early Islamic Historiography / Teresa Bernheimer

A List in Three Dimensions: The Case of Eusebius's Canon Tables of the Gospels / Martin Wallraff

List of the Songs of Ascents in the Cairo Genizah: Their Form and Its Implications / Rebecca Ullrich

Regularity and Variation in Islamic Chains of Transmission / Maroussia Bednarkiewicz

Chapter Lists in Giant and Beneventan Bibles: Some Preliminary Remarks / Marilena Maniaci.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781805111481

1805111485

OCLC:

1416191052