Author: Arthur Verhoogt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053647
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Discarded, Discovered, Collected: The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection provides an accessible introduction to the University's collection of papyri and related ancient materials, the widest and deepest resource of its kind in the Western hemisphere. The collection was founded in the early part of the 20th century by University of Michigan Professor of Classics Francis W. Kelsey. His original intention was to create a set of artifacts that would be useful in teaching students more directly about the ancient world, at a time when trips to ancient sites were much harder to arrange. Jointly administered by the University of Michigan's Department of Classical Studies and its Library, the collection has garnered significant interest beyond scholarly circles and now sees several hundred visitors each year. Of particular note among the collection's holdings are sixty pages of the earliest known copy of the Epistles of St. Paul, which are often featured on tours of the collection by groups from religious institutions. Arthur Verhoogt, one of the current stewards of the University of Michigan Papyrology Collection, provides clear, insightful information in an appealing style that will attract general readers and scholars alike. Extensively illustrated with some of the collection's more spectacular pieces, this volume describes what the collection is, what kinds of ancient texts it contains, and how it has developed from Francis Kelsey's day to the present. Additionally, Verhoogt describes in detail how people who study papyri carry out their work, and how papyri contribute to our understanding of various aspects of the ancient Greco-Roman world. Translations of the ancient texts are presented so that the reader can experience some of the excitement that comes with reading original documents from many centuries ago.
Author: University of Michigan. Board of Regents
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Languages : en
Pages : 2040
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Author: University of Michigan
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Author: University of Michigan. Board of Regents
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1314
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Author: University of Michigan
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Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Announcements for the following year included in some vols.
Author: Cassandra Borges
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Three new fragments from amongst the oldest Greek papyri
Author: Javier L. Facal
Publisher: Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
ISBN: 9788430083749
Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Author: Richard J. Hathaway
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Author: Nicola Reggiani
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110547600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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Since the very beginnings of the digital humanities, Papyrology has been in the vanguard of the application of information technologies to its own scientific purposes, for both theoretical and practical reasons (the strong awareness towards the problems of human memory and the material ways of preserving it; the need to work with a multifarious and overwhelming amount of different data). After more than thirty years of development, we have now at our disposal the most advanced tools to make papyrological studies more and more effective, and even to create a new conception of "papyrology" and a new model of "edition" of the ancient documents. At this turining point, it is important to build an epistemological framework including all the different expressions of Digital Papyrology, to trace a historical sketch setting the background of the contemporary tools, and to provide a clear overview of the current theoretical and technological trends, so that all the possibilities currently available can be exploited following uniform pathways. The volume represents an innovative attempt to deal with such topics, usually relegated into very quick and general treatments within journal articles or papyrological handbooks.
