Название: On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
Автор: Bruce Holsinger
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300260210
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 448
Размер: 47,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era’s surviving historical record. In a study spanning three millennia and twenty languages, Bruce Holsinger explores this animal archive as it shaped the inheritance of the Euro-Mediterranean world, from the leather rolls of ancient Egypt to the Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom.