Dark Side History: Writing & its Mediums!

Описание: From the earliest cave paintings to clay tablets and chisels to ink, quills, and the printing press and the systems of writing themselves — the tools we use to write have shaped the way we think and communicate. In this video, we’ll take a closer look at the materials and methods behind the written word, and how they've evolved across time and cultures and their impact.

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Sources and further reading:

Amalananda Ghosh (1991), An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, BRILL Academic, pp.360-361

Berardi, Roberta, Bruno, Nicoletta & Fizzarotti, Luisa (red.) (2019). On the track of the books: scribes, libraries and textual transmission. Berlin: De Gruyter

Boudreau, Vincent, ed. (2004). The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process. Cambridge University Press

Clemens, Raymond; Graham, Timothy (2007). Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Daniels, Peter T. (1996). Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (eds.). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press.

David Diringer, The Book before Printing: Ancient, Medieval and Oriental, Dover Publications, New York 1982,

Dougherty, Raymond P. (1928). "Writing upon parchment and papyrus among the Babylonians and the Assyrians". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 48: 109–135.

Galling, K., 1971. "Tafel, Buch und Blatt" in Near Eastern Studies in Honour of W. F. Albright (Baltimore), pp 207–23.

Glassner, Jean-Jacques (2003). The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in
Sumer. Translated by Bahrani, Zainab; Van de Mieroop, Marc. Johns Hopkins University Press

Hetzron, Robert (red.) (1997). The Semitic languages. London: Routledge

Leach, Bridget, and William John Tait. 2000. "Papyrus". In Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, edited by Paul T. Nicholson and Ian Shaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 227–253. Thorough technical discussion with extensive bibliography.

Payton, Robert (1991). "The Ulu Burun Writing-Board Set". Anatolian Studies. 41: 99–106.

Radner, Karen; Robson, Eleanor, eds. (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Oxford University Press.

Robinson, Andrew (2000) [1995]. The Story of Writing. Thames & Hudson.

Rutkowska, Hanna, eds. (2023). The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography. Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics. Cambridge University Press.

Ustick, W. Lee (1936). "'Parchment' and 'vellum'". The Library. 4th ser. 16 (4): 439–443.

Whiteman, Marcia Farr (red.), Writing: the nature, development, and teaching of written communication. Vol. 1 Variation in writing : functional and linguistic-cultural differences, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Hillsdale, N.J., 1981

The world’s writing systems: https://www.worldswritingsystems.org/ taken 2025-05-18

Zhixin Shi; Srirangaraj Setlur; Venu Govindaraju. "Digital Enhancement of Palm Leaf Manuscript Images using Normalization Techniques" . Amherst, US: SUNY at Buffalo.

Lots of personal experience attending seminaries regarding semitic language development and Arabic hand writing as well as working in archives handling old manuscripts.

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