Reading Inscriptions and Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance (BICS Supplement 86)

Reading Inscriptions and Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance (BICS Supplement 86)Reading inscriptions and writing Ancient History shows how the work of a group of scholars active in Rome in the middle of the sixteenth century redefined the scope and nature of historical writing. Fascinated by the remains of the Classical world and particularly by inscriptions in stone, they began to collect and compare inscriptions, creating systems of classification and ways of representing their finds that shaped all subsequent attempts to do

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tracing the way in which she and her image emerged in the wake of the first tentative decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs during the 1820s–1840s

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