01781    a2200325   4500001001200000003000800012005001700020007001500037008004000052020002200092024003200114040001500146041000800161100002200169245016200191260004100353500001000394520071300404540006501117650001201182650001501194650001901209650001501228650001001243650001601253650001001269650002001279760001401299856014201313OB-cdf-5807FrMaCLE20251214082609.0cu ||||||m||||181119e||||||||xx |||||s|||||||||0|en|d  a978-2-7226-0500-87 a10.4000/books.cdf.58072doi  aFR-FrMaCLE  aeng1 aFournet, Jean-Luc10aThese Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity :bInaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 7 January 2016 /cJean-Luc Fournet.  aParis :bCollège de France,c2018.  aEbook  a Papyrology, which burgeoned in the nineteenth century after the discovery of thousands of papyri in Egypt, consists in the study of Greek and Latin texts written on a transportable medium (papyrus, clay potsherds, wooden tablets or parchment). While inscriptions and literary sources can render a normative, idealized and sometimes deformed image of individuals, papyri – no matter how fragmented they may be – take us into their daily lives, thus making possible the archaeology of cultural practices. Attempting to decipher “these shreds, guardians of the human memory” – to paraphrase Leonardo de Vinci – is the challenge of the papyrologist, who ceaselessly renews our knowledge of the past.  aOpenEdition Books Licenseuhttps://www.openedition.org/12554 4aHistory 4aLiterature 4aLate Antiquity 4apapyrology 4aEgypt 4apaleography 4aGreek 4amultilingualism0 x2109-92354 eFournet, Jean-Lucuhttps://books.openedition.org/cdf/5807yThese Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity