TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chrysos,Euangelos K.
AU  - Wood,I.N.
TI  - East and West: modes of communication : proceedings of the first plenary conference at Merida 
T2  - Transformation of the Roman world,
SN  - 9004109293
AV  - P90 .E23 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Communication
KW  - History
KW  - Congresses
N1  - 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.); / Javier Arce; -- Images as a substitute for writing; / Peter Brown; -- Images as a substitute for writing : a reply; / Ian Wood; -- Administrative language and its public deployment; / N. Oikonomedes; -- Some reflections on Mandarin language; / Mayke de Jong; -- Communicating holiness; / Lennart Rydén; -- The use and abuse of Latin hagiography in the early medieval West; / Ian Wood; -- Social language and its private deployment; / Averil Cameron; -- Social language, identities and the control of discourse; / Walter Pohl; -- Mit was für Mitteln kann einem physisch Anonymen Auctoritas Verliehen werden?; / Beat Brenk; -- How did rising Christianity cope with pagan sculpture?; / Niels Hannestad; -- Le développement des langues regionales et l'introduction d'alphabets dans des communautés illettrées; / Christian Hannick; -- Conflits et compromis langagiers en Occident latin : de la crise culturelle à l'invention linguistique (IIIe-Xe siècle); / Michel Banniard; -- Transformation of the Roman world : reflections on current research; / Paolo Delogu; -- The transformation of the Roman world : reflections on five years of work; -- Thomas F.X. Noble; -- Modes of communication : an afterword; / Ian Wood
ER  -