Archaeology and TextArchaeology and Text challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between history and archaeology by re-evaluating the role of artefacts and documents in the reconstruction of the historical past. Previous attempts to create a rapprochement between the disciplines have been undermined by a failure to see artefacts and documents as anything more than simple sources of information about the past. The central argument of this concise and original book is that both must be seen in terms of their efficacy in the past, in particular as technologies of power and resistance. |
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... Francis Bacon had named printing ( along with gunpowder and the compass ) as inventions ' unknown to the ancients ' which ' have changed the appearance and state of the whole world ' ( cited in Eisenstein 1983 : 12 ; see Zagorin 1998 ...
... - tions ' , History and Theory 29 : 263-74 . Zagorin , P. ( 1998 ) Francis Bacon ( Princeton University Press ) . Zanker , P. ( 1988 ) The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus ( Univer- sity of Michigan Press ) . Index 141 Bibliography.
Contents
List of illustrations 7 | 8 |
Words and objects in the middle ages | 33 |
The Word and the press | 54 |
Copyright | |
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