A history of writing : from hieroglyph to multimedia / edited by Anne-Marie Christin.
2002
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Title
A history of writing : from hieroglyph to multimedia / edited by Anne-Marie Christin.
Uniform Title
Histoire de l'écriture. English.
Published
[Paris] : Flammarion, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
Z40 .H57 2002
Edition
English language edition.
ISBN
2080108875
Description
403 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50525399
Note
Translated from the French by Josephine Bacon, Deke Dusinbere, and Ian McMorran, and from the Italian by David Stanton.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-396) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: From Image to Writing / Anne-Marie Christin
8
I
Origins and Reinventions
The Precursors of the Written Word in the Danube River Basin / Michael Guichard
17
Cuneiform Script / Jean-Marie Durand
20
How Cuneiform Script was Deciphered / Michael Guichard
33
The Mesopotamian Scribes / Dominique Charpin
36
The Scripts of Ancient Egypt / Pascal Vernus
44
Adaptation of Script of Monuments / Pascal Vernus
64
Writing in China / Leon Vandermeersch
66
The Practice of Chinese Calligraphy / Leon Vandermeersch
86
From Pyroscapulimancy to Writing / Leon Vandermeersch
90
The Scripts of Continental India / Georges-Jean Pinault
92
Writing in Japan / Pascal Griolet
122
The Writing in the Picture / Jacqueline Pigeot
142
Pictures in Writing / Marianne Simon-Oikawa
145
Buddhist Writings in Southeast Asia / Catherine Bizot Francois Bizot
148
The Korean Alphabet / Daniel Bouchez
154
Vietnamese Script and Society / Nguyen Phu Phong
156
Printing and the Reproduction of the Written Word in the Far East / Jean-Pierre Drege
158
The Japanese Press / Cecile Sakai
166
Mayan Script and Society from the Second Through the Tenth Centuries / Michael Davoust
168
Nahuatl Script / Marc Thouvenot
179
A Mixtec Manuscript / Martine Simonin
188
The Peruvian Quipus / Daniele Lavallee
190
Rongo-Rongo: The Easter Island Script / Michael Guichard
192
II
Alphabets and Derived Scripts
Aegean Scripts of the Second Millennium B.C.E / Jean-Pierre Olivier
197
The Origin of the Western Semitic Alphabet and Scripts / Andre Lemaire
203
The Aleph of the Kabalists / Charles Mopsik
216
Arabic Script / Francois Deroche
218
Writings in the Margins of Arabic Manuscripts / Jacqueline Sublet
228
The Greek Alphabets / Catherine Dobias-Lalou
232
Inscriptions on Greek Vases / Francois Lissarrague
241
The Script of Ancient Italy / Dominique Briquel
244
Inscriptions on Coinage / Michel Amandry
254
Christian Alphabets of the Caucasus / Jean-Pierre Mahe
256
Cyrillic Script / Vladimir Vodoff
264
Runic Script / Francois-Xavier Dillmann
271
Ogamic Script / Pierre-Yves Lambert
276
The Scripts of Sub-Saharan Africa / Jean Boulegue Bertrand Hirsch
278
III
The Image in Western Writing
Writing in the Middle Ages / Michel Parisse
287
The Book of Kells / Jennifer O'Reilly
304
A Medieval State Managing Book / Darwin Smith
308
Forms and History of Writing in Italy / Armando Petrucci
310
Spelling in France: Texts and Style / Nina Catach
312
Signatures / Beatrice Fraenkel
315
Urban Forms of Writing in the Eighteenth Century / Daniel Roche
318
Letter Writing in France in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries / Roger Chartier
320
Letter Writing in France in the Nineteenth Century / Cecile Dauphin
322
French and English Primers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Segolene Le Men
326
Literacy in Western Societies / Beatrice Fraenkel
329
The Material Surface of Modern Literary Manuscripts / Claire Bustarret
332
Flaubert: The Labor of Writing / Pierre-Marc de Biasi
340
Raymond Queneau: The Form and Meaning of a Manuscript / Emmanuel Souchier
342
The Rise of Printing in the West / Henri-Jean Martin
344
The History of Typographic Forms in Europe / Rene Ponot
362
Typographies for Children / Annie Renonciat
366
Lettering on Posters / Anne-Marie Christin
372
Visual Poetry, Painters' Books / Anne-Marie Christin
376
Digital Forms of Typography / Jacques Andre
384
Writing and Multimedia / Yves Jeanneret
386
General Bibliography
395
Index
397
Photographic Credits
403
Acknowledgments
405