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Author Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette

Title Weaving and Fabric in Antiquity : Materiality - Representation - Epistemology - Metapoetics / Materialität - Repräsentation - Episteme - Metapoetik / Weben und Gewebe in der Antike
Published Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Contents Einleitung; Introduction; I Materialität; 1. Byssus und Muschelseide. Ein sprachliches Problem und seine Folgen; 2. Le tissage dans les lettres privées de l'Égypte byzantine: travail domestique ou activité lucrative?; II Repräsentation; 3. „Canusiner Gewand, das trübem Honigwein sehr gleicht [...]". Wollqualitäten und Luxusdiskurs in der Antike; 4. Das Gewand des Honorius in der Dichtung Claudians; III Episteme; 5. Denkmuster in der antiken Weberei. Eine Spurensuche
6. The loom and the ship in ancient Greece. Shared knowledge, shared terminology, cross-crafts, or cognitive maritime-textile archaeology?7. Weben und Wahrheit. Die Hermeneutik von Geweben in Euripides' Ion; 8. Over the Rainbow. Arachne und Araneola -- Figuren der Transgression; IV Metapoetik; 9. Einige Pendenzen. Weben und Text in der antiken Literatur; 10. Entgrenzungen von Proserpinas Kosmos; 11. Das Lied von der webenden Aphrodite. Eine metapoetische Interpretation von Nonn. Dion. 24, 242-326; 12. Reading Textual Patchwork; Abstracts; Über die Autoren/About the authors; Indices
Summary "11 papers which focus on the process of textile manufacture, the weaving process itself, and the materiality of fabric. Contributions address the problematic issues of cognitive archaeology, consumer research, literary theory and themes addressing both philosophical history and the history of reception of ideas and practice. The contributions seek both to close the critical gaps with respect to weaving, a broad and complex field in the area of ancient cultural techniques, and to identify new themes. Accordingly, the submissions expand our focus into late antiquity, to integrate texts such as letters written on Papyrus detailing the everyday correspondence of an Egyptian family or to spotlight the meaning of textile terms and the history of misunderstandings associated therein. Frequently overused analogies between writing and weaving are also examined in terms of their legitimacy as well as their limits. The papers presented here result from an international and interdisciplinary conference under the same title held in Castelen, near Basel in 2012"--Provided by publisher
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Subject Textile fabrics, Ancient -- Congresses
Textile fabrics, Ancient -- Research -- Congresses
Textile industry -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Weaving -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Textile fabrics, Ancient -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Manuscripts -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Writing -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Manuscripts
Textile fabrics, Ancient
Textile industry
Weaving
Writing
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781785700637
1785700634