A List in Three Dimensions

Wallraff, Martin (2023): A List in Three Dimensions. The Case of Eusebius’s Canon Tables of the Gospels. In: Bernheimer, Teresa und Vollandt, Ronny (Hrsg.): Synopses and Lists : Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World. Semitic Languages and Cultures, Bd. 22. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. S. 191-214

Abstract

Wallraff examines the canon tables of the gospels, composed by Eusebius of Caesarea in the first half of the fourth century CE, as a new form of synopsis: a list in three dimensions which uses both the extension (length and breadth) of a page in a codex, and the hypertextuality within the codex (intratextual references back and forth). In the antique culture of the book, this system raises the list to a new level of complexity. Given the extraordinary success of the device (with many hundreds of extant copies in numerous languages), the impact on viewing habits and textual practices was enormous.

• Dokumententyp: Buchbeitrag
• Fakultät: Evangelische Theologie > Abteilung für Kirchengeschichte
• Themengebiete: 200 Religion > 230 Christentum, Christliche Theologie ; 200 Religion > 270 Geschichte des Christentums ; 800 Literatur > 880 Griechische Literaturen ; 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie
• ISBN: 978-1-80511-118-4 ; 978-1-80064-916-3 ; 978-1-80511-148-1
• Ort: Cambridge
• Sprache: Englisch