Inventing the alphabet : the origins of letters from antiquity to the present /: the origins of letters from antiquity to the present. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Johanna Drucker.
• Authors: Drucker, Johanna, 1952-
• Contents: When did the alphabet become "Greek"? -- Divine gifts : Original letters, Moses, and the Tablets at Mount Sinai -- Medieval copyists : Magical letters, mythic scripts, and exotic alphabets -- The confusion of tongues and compendia of scripts -- Antiquity explained : The origin and progress of letters -- The rhetoric of tables and the harmony of alphabets -- Modern archaeology : Putting the evidence of the alphabet in place -- Reading the early alphabet : Epigraphy and paleography -- Alphabet effects and the politics of script -- Coda -- Alphabetic agency and global hegemony.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Copyright Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (380 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 411; Alphabet -- History; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; Alphabet; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226815800; 0226815803
• Related ISBNs: 9780226815817; 0226815811
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.