Writing, society and culture in early Rus, c. 950-1300
By: Simon Franklin.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780521813815
Subjects: Written communication -- Kievan Rus.; Communication and culture -- Kievan Rus.
Description: xv, 325 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents … vii; title: List of illustrations … vii; title: Acknowledgements … ix; title: Note on transliteration, citation and terminology … x; title: List of abbreviations … xiii; title: Map: Rus and adjacent lands, 10th-13th centuries … xvi; title: ◦; title: Introduction … 1; title: ◦; title: I. THE GRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT:; title: ◦; title: 1. THE WRITTEN REMAINS … 16; title: Describing writing: categories, principles … 16; title: Primary writing … 21; title: Secondary writing … 47; title: Tertiary writing … 70; title: ◦; title: 2. SCRIPTS AND LANGUAGES … 83; title: Slavonic … 83; title: Greek … 101; title: ‘Latin’ … 106; title: Runes … 110; title: Other scripts … 115; title: ◦; title: 3. THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT … 120; title: ◦; title: II. FUNCTIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF WRITING:; title: ◦; title: 4. WRITING AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION … 129; title: Types of administrative writing … 129; title: Normative writing: codes, rule-lists … 132; title: Contingent writing: documents in administration … 160; title: ◦; title: 5. WRITING AND LEARNING … 187; title: Writing about writing: the alphabet … 187; title: Learning about writing: a literate education … 202; title: ‘Equi-valent’ writing: language and translation … 206; title: ‘Writers’ … 217; title: Writing about learning: ‘bookmen’, ‘philosophers’ … 223; title: ◦; title: 6. WRITING AND PICTURES … 229; title: Reading pictures: (i) some traditional views … 229; title: The multimedia graphic environment: reading a church … 233; title: Reading pictures: (ii) implicit readings? … 241; title: Real readers? Writing about pictures … 248; title: ◦; title: 7. WRITING AND MAGIC … 255; title: Perspectives and definitions … 255; title: Writing about magic … 259; title: Magical writings … 264; title: Writing as magic? … 272; title: ◦; title: 8. AFTERWORD: ON THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF WRITING … 275; title: ◦; title: Illustrations 1-14 … between pages 279 and 280; title: Bibliography … 280; title: Index … 309