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Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition - Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture 1st edition
Armando Petrucci
Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition - Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture 1st edition
Armando Petrucci
Written by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing-on tombstones, monuments, scrolls, books, posters-to commemorate the dead from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D. C.
163 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 1, 1998 |
ISBN13 | 9780804728591 |
Publishers | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 184 |
Dimensions | 160 × 237 × 23 mm · 512 g |
Language | English Italian |
Translator | Sullivan, Michael |
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