Official Epistolography and the Language(s) of Power
Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Research Network Imperium & Officium. Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom, University of Vienna, 10‒12 November 2010
1. Auflage, 2016
The papers presented in this volume sum up the results of the First International Conference of the Austrian Research Network “Imperium and Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom” held in Vienna in November 2010. Its aim was to study communication strategies within an official context by analysing the rhetoric and function of administrative letters in order to gain an insight into the structures of governmental control and bureaucratic mentalities. Its contributions pursue a diachronic and comparative approach focusing on polities and empires in the Ancients Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean World in the period from the first millennium BC to the first millennium AD and covering the fields of Assyriology, Ancient History, and Arabic and Islamic Studies.
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Some Like It Hot: Reflections on the Historical “Temperature” of Letters from Mesopotamian Royal Archives
Page 3 - 14
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Special Cases and Legal Matters: Diction and Function of Letters in the State of the Third Dynasty of Ur (2110–2003 BC)
Page 15 - 30
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To Write or Not to Write: The Duty of Information Towards the King in the Amorite Near East (20th–17th Centuries B.C.)
Page 31 - 42
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Les lettres des rois d’Aššur découvertes à Kaniš (XIXe siècle av. J.-C.)
Page 43 - 60
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Royal Pen Pals: The kings of Assyria in Correspondence with Officials, Clients and Total Strangers (8th and 7th Centuries BC)
Karen Radner
Page 61 - 72
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Doing the King’s Work: Perceptions of Service in the Assyrian Royal Correspondence
Page 73 - 90
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Rhetorics, Politeness, Persuasion and Argumentation in Late Babylonian Epistolography: The Contrast Between Official Correspondence and Private Letters
Page 101 - 116
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Royal Strategies of Representation and the Language(s) of Power: Some Considerations on the Audience and the Dissemination of the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions
Page 117 - 130
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Die Korrespondenz hellenistischer und römischer Herrscher aus der Perspektive modernen Managements
Page 153 - 162
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The Epistolary Genre of Classical Antiquity and the Epigraphy of Early Imperial Galatia: the ‘Appendix’ to the Res Gestae
Page 173 - 184
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Die römischen Amtsträger und die sozialen Gruppen im Imperium Romanum: Der Reflex in der epigraphischen Dokumentation
Page 185 - 200
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“The Augusti and Caesars Say”: Imperial Communication in a Collegiate Monarchy
Page 219 - 236
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Diktion und Funktionalität verwaltungsinterner Korrespondenz von Amtsträgern des Sicherheitswesens im spätantiken Ägypten
Page 237 - 254
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Des villageois en quête de lettres officielles: le cas des pétitionnaires d’Aphrodité (Égypte, VIe s. ap. J.-C.)
Page 255 - 266
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The Rhetoric of Power and the Voice of Reason: Tensions Between Central and Local in the Correspondence of Qurra ibn Sharīk
Page 267 - 280
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Edition:
978-3-7001-7705-0, Print, paperback, 29.01.2016
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978-3-7001-7938-2, eBook, Digital, 29.01.2016
Edition:
1. Auflage
Pages:
XXIV+336 Pages
Format:
30x21cm
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6 plates
Language:
English
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