TY  - GEN
AU  - Fournet,Jean-Luc
TI  - These Shreds, Guardians of Human Memory: Papyrus and Culture in Late Antiquity: Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 7 January 2016 
SN  - 978-2-7226-0500-8
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Paris
PB  - Collège de France
KW  - History
KW  - Literature
KW  - Late Antiquity
KW  - papyrology
KW  - Egypt
KW  - paleography
KW  - Greek
KW  - multilingualism
N1  - Ebook
N2  -  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
UR  - https://books.openedition.org/cdf/5807
ER  -