Archives and Dossiers

Vandorpe, Katelijn

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“…The terminology of whether to call collections of documents belonging to private individuals an archive or a dossier has generated debate among papyrologists, but the barriers between the public and the private in such collections that survive from the ancient world are often extremely permeable. 14 Many archives recovered from Roman Egypt contain a collection of documents used in legal proceedings; a good example is the archive of Gaius Julius Agrippinus, which records a battle over ownership of some mortgaged fields through a range of documents including petitions, legal records, and private letters. 15 More personal documents also appear in our case studies.…”

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The Ties That Bind

Gloyn

Crewe

King

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Journal of Family History

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Using an interdisciplinary research methodology across three archaeological and historical case studies, this article explores “family archives.” Four themes illustrate how objects held in family archives, curation practices, and intergenerational narratives reinforce a family’s sense of itself: people–object interactions, gender, socialization and identity formation, and the “life course.” These themes provide a framework for professional archivists to assist communities and individuals working with their own family archives. We argue that the family archive, broadly defined, encourages a more egalitarian approach to history. We suggest a multiperiod analysis draws attention to historical forms of knowledge and meaning-making practices over time.

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Section: How Do We Define a Family Archive?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ties That Bind

Gloyn

Crewe

King

et al. 2018

Journal of Family History

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“…We have focused on so‐called ‘archives’; namely groups of texts that have been collected in antiquity by persons or institutions, either due to their official purpose, or due to sentimental value attached to them (cf. Vandorpe : 238–40). We have further taken into account three major text types: letters, petitions, and contracts.…”

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On The Third Type of Headed Relative Clause in Post‐Classical and Early Byzantine Greek

Bentein

Bagriacik

2018

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It has been claimed that Archaic and Classical Greek had two main types of headed relative clauses: (i) postnominal externally headed relative clauses; and (ii) internally headed relative clauses (Perna 2013a;2013b;Fauconnier 2014;Probert 2015). In this article, we take a closer look at the semantic and syntactic properties of the second category in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek (I-VIII AD). Analysing a corpus of documentary texts, we show that a good deal of the examples in this period do not correspond to the established properties of internally headed relative clauses in the history of Greek. This leads us to propose that at least some examples that are apparently internally headed should be revised as a third relative clause type, namely prenominal externally headed relative clauses. We hypothesise that such examples came into existence through form-function reanalysis of internally headed relative clauses, a process which we suggest took place already in the Classical period (V-IV BC). In the last part of our article, we investigate the motivation for the choice of internally headed and prenominal externally headed relative clauses over the postnominal ones: we show that such examples occur strikingly frequently in formal texts such as contracts, petitions and formal letters. We propose that in such texts, internally headed and prenominal externally headed relative clauses, which are syntactically more complex, function as 'transparent signifiers' (Hodge & Kress 1988), serving as a marker of a higher social level. . 6 In this article, we refer to the (nominal) constituent that is semantically shared by both the relative clause and the matrix clause as 'head noun' or simply as 'head'. A number of alternative labels have been chosen in the literature to refer to the same (syntactic) object as 'head (noun)', among which are 'antecedent', 'pivot', or 'domain nominal'. For the purposes of this article, nothing hinges on these terminological differences. 7 With HEAD standing for 'head noun', rel pro for 'relative pronoun', i for 'anaphoric relationship', V for 'verb', and Ø for the gap/presumably deleted constituent at the relativisation site. 8 Compare Fiorentino (2007: 275-6) for this notation. The head noun assumes a grammatical function both within the relative clause, precisely at the relativization site, and outside of it. Very much in line with Fiorentino (2007: 275-6), we assume that this is established with a double anaphoric relationship in the relative clause construction: (i) between the head noun and the relative pronoun; and (ii) between the relative pronoun and a 'deleted' constituent. 530

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“…27 See P.Choach.Survey, 10-13. 28 See the picture in Vandorpe 2009, 220-221. 29 Flinders Petrie, quoted by McGing 1990 was rolled up separately; the rolls were then bound round, along with slips of reed, to prevent their being bent or broken; then tied up in a linen cloth; next in a large lump of old tattered woollen embroidery; and the bundle placed in a big jar sunk in the ground'.…”

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Archives and Libraries in Greco-Roman Egypt

2018

Manuscripts and Archives

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Abstract:Owing to the mass of its documentation, Egypt gives many examples of discoveries of documentary and literary papyri. The papyrologists traditionally speak of 'archives' for documentary texts and 'libraries' for literary texts, a polarity which reflects the two fundamental branches of papyrology, namely documentary papyrology and literary papyrology. But is it epistemologically correct? Does this reflect reality? The situation is actually less clear: many ancient sets combined both documents and books. After presenting the archives and the libraries as evidenced by papyri, I will try to show examples of these combinations and expose the reasons that make them so difficult to detect, to the detriment of papyrology and of our understanding of ancient culture in general. Introduction'Archives' and 'libraries' are two terms used by papyrologists to designate collections of either documentary or literary texts (henceforth 'documents' and 'books' respectively). As far as classical Antiquity is concerned, archives and libraries are best known from allusions made to them in literary sources. And, with a few exceptions (including the famous case of Herculaneum), Greco-Roman Egypt is the only place where climatic conditions allowed for the massive preservation of documents and books which constituted ancient archives and libraries. But the conditions in which they were discovered in the nineteenth and twentieth century unfortunately did not permit these ancient collections to come down to us in their entirety. x The interest in these ancient collections, which has developed particularly in recent decades, is doubly justified:(a) Apart from the content of the texts they are composed of (which are the delight of historians and philologists), these collections are archaeological objects that form a whole and that we need to reconstruct and study as such. They tell us about the ways of keeping and filing written texts practiced by the ancients. In other || I thank Adam Bülow Jacobsen and Korshi Dosoo for revising my English and Antonio Ricciardetto for proof-reading my paper.Brought to you by | College de France Authenticated Download Date | 2/21/18 2:27 PM Sabine Kienitz, Michael Friedrich, Christian Brockmann & Alessandro Bausi (éd.), Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping, Berlin-Boston 2018, p. 171-200 172 | Jean-Luc Fournet words, the information they give us is a matter of library studies, archival studies and the history of knowledge; (b) We must analyse documents or books, not only in themselves, but in relation to the way they were organized. The relationship between the components of a collection is meaningful and provides new data in addition to those provided by each of the components; more precisely, it strengthens, enlivens and puts into perspective such information. As Orsolina Montevecchi wrote about archives, l'archivio, e specialmente un archivio privato che si estenda per un certo lasso di tempo, è un insieme più vivo e istruttivo, per certi aspetti, di una serie di docu...

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Archives and Dossiers

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The Ties That Bind

The Ties That Bind

On The Third Type of Headed Relative Clause in Post‐Classical and Early Byzantine Greek

Archives and Libraries in Greco-Roman Egypt

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