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Not set in stone : epigraphy between manuscript and print in Renaissance Europe, 1521-1603
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Galván, Paloma Pérez (2021) Not set in stone : epigraphy between manuscript and print in Renaissance Europe, 1521-1603. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
The present thesis, ‘Not Set in Stone: Epigraphy between Manuscript and Print in Southern Europe, 1521-1603’, examines how a group of sixteenth-century scholars, all from Europe, laid the foundations for the ‘science’ of epigraphy as we understand it, and how these foundations have come to shape our study and understanding of ancient inscriptions. The research focuses on a precise timeframe in the Cinquecento (1521-1603), which saw a massive production of epigraphic manuscripts and the first attempts at the creation of printed epigraphic compilations. By drawing upon a broad range of printed and manuscript sources in different languages, including corpora of epigraphic texts, annotated copies of publications, topographical guides to the city of Rome and correspondence, I investigate how scholars transcribed inscriptions, how they organized their material within the compilations (with the creation of categories and indices) and how they were in constant exchange not only of epigraphic information, but also of approaches and methods of interpretation. During the Renaissance, and more particularly during the Cinquecento, inscriptions were an essential part of the reconstruction of the classical past: combined with literary texts and with other material remains, they allowed scholars to achieve an almost complete picture of antiquity. The sixteenth-century corpora I am concerned with in this thesis all represent, in their own way, a turning-point in the history of the epigraphic discipline and allow us to question what epigraphers still consider the landmark epigraphic catalogue, the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CN Inscriptions. Epigraphy. P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Inscriptions, Ancient, Inscriptions, Latin, Books -- History -- 1450-1600, Manuscripts, Renaissance, Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- Italy -- History and criticism | ||||
| Official Date: | March 2021 | ||||
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| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Centre for the Study of the Renaissance | ||||
| Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Cooley, Alison ; De Smet, Ingrid | ||||
| Extent: | xix, 390 leaves : illustrations, photographs, facsimiles | ||||
| Language: | eng |
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