Collect and preserve : institutional contexts of epistemic knowledge in pre-modern societies / edited by Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jochem Kahl, and Eun-Jung Lee.

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Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021.
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x, 230 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : 48 illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.

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    The use of writing for the preservation and transmission of administrative, scientific, literary and sacred knowledge has a long history. From the third millennium BCE on, many forms of social processes - intellectual, religious, political and others - have been increasingly materialized in the form of a variety of document types (tablets, bones, papyri, scrolls, parchments, books). Some of them were collected in archives or libraries that were dependent on royal palaces, governmental institutions and temples but also in private contexts. The publication 'Collect and Preserve' assembles a number of studies devoted to material aspects of collecting texts in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Qumran, Medieval Japan, and Korea under the Choson-Dynasty (1392?-1910).
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    Contains select papers from a workshop: "The international workshop 'Scholarship between clay and light. Libraries, archives and documents in the Eastern world' took place from 5th to 7th November 2015. ... at the Freie Universität Berlin" --Introduction.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
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    "Generously supported by the CRC [Collaborative Research Centre] 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period", based at the Freie Universität Berlin, and the German Research Foundation." --Introduction.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • The Epistemic Legacy: Studying the collection, preservation, and transfer of knowledge in premodern societies / Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jochem Kahl, Eun-Jeung Lee
    • Ancient Egypt : The Storage of Papyri in Ancient Egypt / Kim Ryholt
    • The Egyptian Tomb as an Epistemic Site / Jochem Kahl
    • Ancient Mesopotamia: The network of the Babylonian Libraries in the First Millennium BC / Philippe Clancier
    • Citation and Counter-citation in Classical Sumerian Scholastic Dialogue / J. Cale Johnson
    • Japan: The Hōzō, Treasure House, as Topos of Knowledge or Archive: The Formation and Expansion of the Legacy of Intellectual Knowledge in Japan / Yasurō Abe
    • Korea: "No Books to Leave, No Women to Enter": Confucian Academies in Pre-Modern Korea and Their Book Collections / Vladim̕r Glomb ; Eun-Jeung Lee
    • The Archives of the P'ungsan Ryu Clan / Myungja Kim
    • The Libraries of Royal Palaces in the Late Choson Dynasty / Ok Young Jung.
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    Institutional contexts of epistemic knowledge in pre-modern societies
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    • 9783447108294 (print)
    • 3447108290 (print)
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    1016585208
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    • 9783447108294
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