A history of writing : from hieroglyph to multimedia.
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| Uniform title: | Histoire de l'écriture. English |
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| Edition: | English-language ed. |
| Imprint: | [Paris, France] : Flammarion, c2002. |
| Description: | 403 p. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4782997 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: From Image to Writing / Anne-Marie Christin
- I. Origins and Reinventions
- The Precursors of the Written Word in the Danube River Basin / Michael Guichard
- Cuneiform Script / Jean-Marie Durand
- How Cuneiform Script was Deciphered / Michael Guichard
- The Mesopotamian Scribes / Dominique Charpin
- The Scripts of Ancient Egypt / Pascal Vernus
- Adaptation of Script of Monuments / Pascal Vernus
- Writing in China / Leon Vandermeersch
- The Practice of Chinese Calligraphy / Leon Vandermeersch
- From Pyroscapulimancy to Writing / Leon Vandermeersch
- The Scripts of Continental India / Georges-Jean Pinault
- Writing in Japan / Pascal Griolet
- The Writing in the Picture / Jacqueline Pigeot
- Pictures in Writing / Marianne Simon-Oikawa
- Buddhist Writings in Southeast Asia / Catherine Bizot and Francois Bizot
- The Korean Alphabet / Daniel Bouchez
- Vietnamese Script and Society / Nguyen Phu Phong
- Printing and the Reproduction of the Written Word in the Far East / Jean-Pierre Drege
- The Japanese Press / Cecile Sakai
- Mayan Script and Society from the Second Through the Tenth Centuries / Michael Davoust
- Nahuatl Script / Marc Thouvenot
- A Mixtec Manuscript / Martine Simonin
- The Peruvian Quipus / Daniele Lavallee
- Rongo-Rongo: The Easter Island Script / Michael Guichard
- II. Alphabets and Derived Scripts
- Aegean Scripts of the Second Millennium B.C.E / Jean-Pierre Olivier
- The Origin of the Western Semitic Alphabet and Scripts / Andre Lemaire
- The Aleph of the Kabalists / Charles Mopsik
- Arabic Script / Francois Deroche
- Writings in the Margins of Arabic Manuscripts / Jacqueline Sublet
- The Greek Alphabets / Catherine Dobias-Lalou
- Inscriptions on Greek Vases / Francois Lissarrague
- The Script of Ancient Italy / Dominique Briquel
- Inscriptions on Coinage / Michel Amandry
- Christian Alphabets of the Caucasus / Jean-Pierre Mahe
- Cyrillic Script / Vladimir Vodoff
- Runic Script / Francois-Xavier Dillmann
- Ogamic Script / Pierre-Yves Lambert
- The Scripts of Sub-Saharan Africa / Jean Boulegue and Bertrand Hirsch
- III. The Image in Western Writing
- Writing in the Middle Ages / Michel Parisse
- The Book of Kells / Jennifer O'Reilly
- A Medieval State Managing Book / Darwin Smith
- Forms and History of Writing in Italy / Armando Petrucci
- Spelling in France: Texts and Style / Nina Catach
- Signatures / Beatrice Fraenkel
- Urban Forms of Writing in the Eighteenth Century / Daniel Roche
- Letter Writing in France in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries / Roger Chartier
- Letter Writing in France in the Nineteenth Century / Cecile Dauphin
- French and English Primers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Segolene Le Men
- Literacy in Western Societies / Beatrice Fraenkel
- The Material Surface of Modern Literary Manuscripts / Claire Bustarret
- Flaubert: The Labor of Writing / Pierre-Marc de Biasi
- Raymond Queneau: The Form and Meaning of a Manuscript / Emmanuel Souchier
- The Rise of Printing in the West / Henri-Jean Martin
- The History of Typographic Forms in Europe / Rene Ponot
- Typographies for Children / Annie Renonciat
- Lettering on Posters / Anne-Marie Christin
- Visual Poetry, Painters' Books / Anne-Marie Christin
- Digital Forms of Typography / Jacques Andre
- Writing and Multimedia / Yves Jeanneret.
