Manuscripts and Archives 2018
DOI: 10.1515/9783110541397-006
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Archives and Libraries in Greco-Roman Egypt

Abstract: 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.… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

0
1
0

Year Published

2020
2020
2023
2023

Publication Types

Select...
6

Relationship

0
6

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 7 publications
(1 citation statement)
references
References 2 publications
0
1
0
Order By: Relevance
“…Moreover, a professor of the Hamburg University doctor Markus Friedrich estimated them in his book «The Birth of the Archive: A History of Knowledge». He concluded that Eugenio Casanova 1 , Adolf Brennecke 2 , Leopoldo Sandri 3 , Elio Lodolini 4 , Robert-Henri Bautier 5 as well as Jose Luis Rodriguez de Diego 6 had elaborated their theories on the basis of the European archives history and «none of these periodizations of the history of archives is completely satisfactory» including the outstanding Bautier's periodization 7 . It is known that Bautier had subdivided the Universal history of archives into four periods: «the palace archives period» (the Ancient Times), «the chartulary period» (the XII-XV centuries), the period of «archives as authority armory» (from the XVI to the early XIX century) and the period of «archives as laboratories of history» (the early XIX to the XX century).…”
mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, a professor of the Hamburg University doctor Markus Friedrich estimated them in his book «The Birth of the Archive: A History of Knowledge». He concluded that Eugenio Casanova 1 , Adolf Brennecke 2 , Leopoldo Sandri 3 , Elio Lodolini 4 , Robert-Henri Bautier 5 as well as Jose Luis Rodriguez de Diego 6 had elaborated their theories on the basis of the European archives history and «none of these periodizations of the history of archives is completely satisfactory» including the outstanding Bautier's periodization 7 . It is known that Bautier had subdivided the Universal history of archives into four periods: «the palace archives period» (the Ancient Times), «the chartulary period» (the XII-XV centuries), the period of «archives as authority armory» (from the XVI to the early XIX century) and the period of «archives as laboratories of history» (the early XIX to the XX century).…”
mentioning
confidence: 99%