From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls: New Approaches to the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions (Laawrence J. Schoenberg Studies in Manuscript Culture) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0812247361 ISBN 13: 9780812247367

Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015

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While European manuscripts have been the subject of numerous historical, philological, and art historical studies over the past three decades, the study of the material culture of Asian (Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Taoist, and the like) manuscript traditions remains a relatively unexplored field. But Asian manuscripts, as the contributors to From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls demonstrate, contain much more than the semantic meaning of the words they reproduce. The ten essays collected here look closely at a wide variety of manuscript traditions with a special focus on both their history and the ways in they can be studied through digital technology to make the cataloguing, comparative analysis, and aesthetic appreciation of them more accessible to scholars and students. Each essay examines ways in which hand-produced texts-from ancient to early modern Thai, Pali, Chinese, Central Asian, Sanskrit, and Arabic manuscript traditions-shape both meaning and interpretation, and to a larger extent, the cultural norms that define their use. Together, the essays explore topics such as the best current practices for preservation and cataloging, the value of collaboration among scholars who work on different aspects of codicological, paleographic, orthographic, and material culture studies, and the use of these material objects for religious, political, cultural and pedagogical purposes. From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls explores issues relating to the complex relationships between text and image and between the spoken and the written word, and among the overlapping realms of religion, science, and society. Contributors: Angela S. Chiu, Alexandra Green, Justin Thomas McDaniel, Kim Plofker, Lynn Ransom, Peter Scharf, Daniel Sou, Ori Tavor, Sergei Tourkin, Sinead Ward, Susan Whitfield, Hiram Woodward.

Biografía del autor:

Justin Thomas McDaniel is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Lynn Ransom is Curator at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

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• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0812247361
• ISBN 13: 9780812247367
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: McDaniel Justin Thomas, Ransom Lynn