communication devices: technology and industry developments
Translated-transliterated amen made Christian liturgy more accessible. In Latin phrases like “amen, amen, fiat, fiat,” it became bureaucratic boilerplate. … Read the post amen amen, fiat fiat: theological, liturgical, bureaucratic
The Maria and Julianus early Christian epitaphs from 6th-century Greece apparently were made from production-to-stock stones with generic inscriptions. … Read the post production-to-stock for early Christian epitaphs
The Julianus gravestone’s easily understood symbols and its appended epitaph suggest mass-produced Christian gravestones in early Christian Athens. … Read the post Julianus gravestone suggests ancient, mass-produced Christian gravestones
Books with purple parchment and gold lettering, both pagan and Christian, were known in ancient Rome, early Islamic Baghdad and early medieval Spain. … Read the post purple parchment, gold-lettered books across time and space
Early computerized library book circulation systems in the 1970s used punched cards to register circulation records. That’s yesterday in book history. … Read the post punched cards for library book circulation
Watching television like it used to be: live excerpt of Jaime Davidovich’s “Blue, Red, Yellow” at the Hirshhorn Museum. … Read the post good old-fashioned social television watching
Close study of the Syriac Galen Palimpsest could lead to better insight into the relation of linguistic translation and material substitution. … Read the post translations and substitutions in ancient medicine
A disembodied hand writing on the wall and the Cyrus Cylinder, a monumental personal seal, are highly authoritative forms for writing. … Read the post writing on the wall and the Cyrus Cylinder
Trithemius was a learned man of contradictions and an advocate of magic. Amid the rapid rise of printing, he praised scribes. … Read the post Trithemius on printing, scribes, and reason
Māsarjawaih’s medicines from early eighth-century Baghdad are more developed and more popular than those in Paulus Aegineta’s earlier Byzantine list. … Read the post materia medica of Paulus Aegineta and Māsarjawaih