Ancient knowledge networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia /

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Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robson, Eleanor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 2019.
Temas:
Learning and scholarship > Assyria > History.
Learning and scholarship > Iraq > Babylonia > History.
Savoir et érudition > Assyrie > Histoire.
Savoir et érudition > Irak > Babylonie > Histoire.
Middle & Near Eastern archaeology.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
Middle East.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Intellectual life
Learning and scholarship
Assyria > Intellectual life.
Babylonia > Intellectual life.
Middle East > Assyria
Middle East > Babylonia
history
archaeology
Cuneiform
Assyria
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical abbreviations; Museum and excavation sigla; Dating conventions; Editorial conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. From 'Ashurbanipal's Library' and the 'stream of tradition' to new approaches to cuneiform scholarship; 3. Trust in Nabu? Assyrian royal attitudes to court scholarship; 4. The writing-board was at my house: Scholarly and textual mobility in seventh-century Assyria; 5. Grasping the righteous sceptre: Nabu, scholarship and the kings of Babylonia
  • 6. At the gate of Eanna: Babylonian scholarly spaces before and after the early fifth century7. Conclusions: Towards a social geography of cuneiform scholarship; Bibliography; Index

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