Isbn: 9789004520257 - canonisation as innovation: anchoring cultural formation in the first millennium bce (euhormos: greco-roman studies in anchoring innovation, band 3) (4 Ergebnisse)

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. KlappentextDrawing on case-studies from the first millennium BCE, this volume explores canonisation as a form of cultural formation. The book asks why and how canonisation works and thereby investigates the importance of the concept of a.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman) as case studies. It focuses on canonisation as a form of cultural formation, asking why and how canonisation works in this particular way and explaining the importance of the first millennium BCE for these question and vice versa. As a result of this focus, notions like anchoring, cultural memory, embedding and innovation play an important role throughout the book.…