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East and West : modes of communication : proceedings of the first plenary conference at Merida / edited by Evangelos Chrysos and Ian Wood - xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Transformation of the Roman world, v. 5 1386-4165 ; . - Transformation of the Roman world, volume 5 .

Papers presented at the first (Merida, 1994) and last (1997, Isernia) conferences of the European Science Foundation program on the transformation of the Roman world

Includes bibliographical references and index

The city of Mérida (Emerita) in the Vitas Patrum Emeritensium (VIth century A.D.) -- Images as a substitute for writing -- Images as a substitute for writing : a reply -- Administrative language and its public deployment -- Some reflections on Mandarin language -- Communicating holiness -- The use and abuse of Latin hagiography in the early medieval West -- Social language and its private deployment -- Social language, identities and the control of discourse -- Mit was für Mitteln kann einem physisch Anonymen Auctoritas Verliehen werden? -- How did rising Christianity cope with pagan sculpture? -- Le développement des langues regionales et l'introduction d'alphabets dans des communautés illettrées -- Conflits et compromis langagiers en Occident latin : de la crise culturelle à l'invention linguistique (IIIe-Xe siècle) -- Transformation of the Roman world : reflections on current research -- The transformation of the Roman world : reflections on five years of work -- Thomas F.X. Noble -- Modes of communication : an afterword / Javier Arce / Peter Brown / Ian Wood / N. Oikonomedes / Mayke de Jong / Lennart Rydén / Ian Wood / Averil Cameron / Walter Pohl / Beat Brenk / Niels Hannestad / Christian Hannick / Michel Banniard / Paolo Delogu / Ian Wood

ISBN: 9004109293

LCCN: 99023080

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Communication--History--Congresses

LC Class. No.: P90 / .E23 1999

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