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Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity
Towards a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach
Series: - Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, Volume: 41
Documentary texts are vital to our understanding of many aspects of the ancient world, such as its administration, education, and economy. The value of these texts goes even further however: being autographs, they directly testify to ancient communication practices, a field of study which so far has remained underexplored. In this volume, specialists in the field engage with a broad range of documentary sources. They discuss not only how various modes of communication, such as language, handwriting, and lay-out, are employed in specific contexts of writing, but also how these different modes are interrelated. Building on insights from contemporary social-semiotic theory, the volume makes a case for the establishment of historical social semiotics as a discipline.
Klaas Bentein, Ph.D. (2012), is associate research professor at Ghent University and PI of the ERC project EVWRIT. He has published widely in the fields of Ancient Greek linguistics and papyrology, including Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek: Have- and Be- Constructions (OUP 2016).
Yasmine Amory, Ph.D. (2018), Ãcole Pratique des Hautes Ãtudes, is postdoctoral research fellow at Ghent University. She has published many articles on communication practices in Antiquity and compiles editions of unpublished papyri from different collections around the world.
Contributors are: Yasmine Amory, Klaas Bentein, Sarah Béthume, Eleonora Conti, Geert De Mol, Mark Depauw, Jean-Luc Fournet, Antonella Ghignoli, Nicola Reggiani, Marco Stroppa, SofÃa Torallas Tovar, James Wolfe.
Yasmine Amory, Ph.D. (2018), Ãcole Pratique des Hautes Ãtudes, is postdoctoral research fellow at Ghent University. She has published many articles on communication practices in Antiquity and compiles editions of unpublished papyri from different collections around the world.
Contributors are: Yasmine Amory, Klaas Bentein, Sarah Béthume, Eleonora Conti, Geert De Mol, Mark Depauw, Jean-Luc Fournet, Antonella Ghignoli, Nicola Reggiani, Marco Stroppa, SofÃa Torallas Tovar, James Wolfe.
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Editorial Notation
Introduction: Developing a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach to Communication Practices in Antiquity
âKlaas Bentein and Yasmine Amory
1 Beyond the Text or the Contribution of âPaléographie signifianteâ in Documentary Papyrology: The Example of Formats in Late Antiquity
âJean-Luc Fournet
2 BIG & Small: The Size of Documents as a Semiotic Resource for Graeco-Roman Egypt
âMarco Stroppa
3 Notes on Ostraca and Scribal Practice
âSofÃa Torallas Tovar
4 Visual Signs of Deference in Late Antique Greek Letters on Papyrus
âYasmine Amory
5 The Spread and Persistence of Roman Features in Some Greek Papyrus Letters of the High Chancery
âEleonora Angela Conti
6 Applied Category Analysis for Interpreting a List in the Late Antique Documentary Tradition: Some Preliminary Considerations
âAntonella Ghignoli
7 The Textualization of Womenâs Letters from Roman Egypt: Analyzing Historical Framing Practices from a Multi-Modal Point of View
âKlaas Bentein
8 Towards a Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Greek Medical Prescriptions on Papyrus
âNicola Reggiani
9 Imagining Faith: Images, Scripts, and Texts of Early Christian Inscriptions from the Roman Near East
âJames Wolfe
10 The âExposed Writingsâ: Semiotic Contributions to the Analysis of Linguistic Variability in Archaic Greek Inscriptions
âSarah Béthume
11 á½ÎºÏá½½ or á½ÎºÏώι: Reconsidering Orthographic Hypercorrection in Antiquity
âGeert De Mol
12 Word-Split Frequency in Greek Documentary Papyri (with an Appendix on Syllabification)
âMark Depauw
Index of Passages Cited
Index of Subjects
Notes on Contributors
Editorial Notation
Introduction: Developing a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach to Communication Practices in Antiquity
âKlaas Bentein and Yasmine Amory
Part 1: A Novel Approach to the Visual and Material Characteristics of Ancient Documents
1 Beyond the Text or the Contribution of âPaléographie signifianteâ in Documentary Papyrology: The Example of Formats in Late Antiquity
âJean-Luc Fournet
2 BIG & Small: The Size of Documents as a Semiotic Resource for Graeco-Roman Egypt
âMarco Stroppa
3 Notes on Ostraca and Scribal Practice
âSofÃa Torallas Tovar
4 Visual Signs of Deference in Late Antique Greek Letters on Papyrus
âYasmine Amory
5 The Spread and Persistence of Roman Features in Some Greek Papyrus Letters of the High Chancery
âEleonora Angela Conti
6 Applied Category Analysis for Interpreting a List in the Late Antique Documentary Tradition: Some Preliminary Considerations
âAntonella Ghignoli
Part 2: A Multi-Modal Approach to Ancient Sources
7 The Textualization of Womenâs Letters from Roman Egypt: Analyzing Historical Framing Practices from a Multi-Modal Point of View
âKlaas Bentein
8 Towards a Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Greek Medical Prescriptions on Papyrus
âNicola Reggiani
9 Imagining Faith: Images, Scripts, and Texts of Early Christian Inscriptions from the Roman Near East
âJames Wolfe
10 The âExposed Writingsâ: Semiotic Contributions to the Analysis of Linguistic Variability in Archaic Greek Inscriptions
âSarah Béthume
Part 3: A Quantitative Approach to Linguistic Variation in Papyri
11 á½ÎºÏá½½ or á½ÎºÏώι: Reconsidering Orthographic Hypercorrection in Antiquity
âGeert De Mol
12 Word-Split Frequency in Greek Documentary Papyri (with an Appendix on Syllabification)
âMark Depauw
Index of Passages Cited
Index of Subjects
This volume will be of interest to classicists interested in the interdisciplinary study of ancient communication practices. It will also be of relevance to specialists of modern-day languages with an interest in historical corpora.