Publication Date:
2024-03-27
Description:
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.
Keywords:
anchoring
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Assyria
;
Attic orators
;
Babylonia
;
cultural memory
;
Egyptian Demotic
;
embedding
;
Greek tragedy
;
Hebrew Bible
;
innovation
;
Isis aretalogies
;
Mnemohistory
;
Roman religion
;
The Uncanonical
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thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Language:
English
Format:
image/jpeg
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