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  1. Writing the dead
    death and writing strategies in the Western tradition
    Author: Petrucci, Armando
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.

    Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When did human beings begin - and why have they continued - to decide that a certain number of their dead had a right to a "written death"? What... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When did human beings begin - and why have they continued - to decide that a certain number of their dead had a right to a "written death"? What differences have existed in the practice of writing death from age to age and culture to culture? Drawing principally on testimonials intended for public display, such as monuments, tombstones, and grave markings, as well as on scrolls, books, manuscripts, newspapers and posters, the author reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing to commemorate the dead, from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.

     
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  2. Writing the dead
    death and writing strategies in the Western tradition
    Author: Petrucci, Armando
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.

    Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When did human beings begin - and why have they continued - to decide that a certain number of their dead had a right to a "written death"? What... more

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Europa-Universität Viadrina, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When did human beings begin - and why have they continued - to decide that a certain number of their dead had a right to a "written death"? What differences have existed in the practice of writing death from age to age and culture to culture? Drawing principally on testimonials intended for public display, such as monuments, tombstones, and grave markings, as well as on scrolls, books, manuscripts, newspapers and posters, the author reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing to commemorate the dead, from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.

     
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