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