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Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
A Global Comparative Approach
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In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. This volume shows how much is learned when historians of scholarship, like contemporary historians of science, focus on earlier scholars' practices, and when Western scholarly traditions are treated as part of a much larger, cross-cultural inquiry.
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Yes, you can access Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices by Anthony Grafton,Glenn W. Most in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Publishing. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- How to do things with texts: An introduction
- 1 Reliable books
- 2 Obscurity
- 3 Allegoresis and etymology
- 4 Classifying the Rigveda on the basis of ritual usage
- 5 Maryādām Ullan.ghya
- 6 Making sense of Suetonius in the twelfth century
- 7 From philology to philosophy
- 8 Gods on clay
- 9 An unknown medieval Coptic Hebraism?
- 10 Picturing as practice
- 11 Inimitable sources
- 12 Excerpts versus fragments
- 13 Johann Buxtorf makes a notebook
- 14 World bibliographies
- Bibliography
- Indexes