Weben und Gewebe in der Antike / Texts and Textiles in the Ancient World: Materialität – Repräsentation – Episteme – Metapoetik / Materiality – ... (Ancient Textiles)

by Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer

Weaving and Fabric in Materiality – Representation – Epistemology – Metapoetics presents 11 papers arranged under the four headings of the title which focus on the process of textile manufacture, the weaving process itself, and the materiality of fabric. Contributions address the problematic issues of cognitive archaeology, consumer research, literary theory and themes addressing both philosophical history and the history of reception of ideas and practice. The contributions seek both to close the critical gaps with respect to weaving, a broad and complex field in the area of ancient cultural techniques, and to identify new themes. Accordingly, the submissions expand our focus into late antiquity, to integrate texts such as letters written on Papyrus detailing the everyday correspondence of an Egyptian family or to spotlight the meaning of textile terms and the history of misunderstandings associated therein. Frequently overused analogies between writing and weaving are also examined in terms of their legitimacy as well as their limits. The papers presented here result from an international and interdisciplinary conference under the same title held in Castelen, near Basel in 2012.
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Table of Contents

Vorwort/Preface
I Materialität
1. Felicitas Byssus und Muschelseide – ein sprachliches Problem und seine Folgen
2. Sophie Gällnö: Le tissage dans les lettres privées de l’Égypte travail domestique ou activité lucrative ?

II Repräsentation

1. Beate „Canusiner Gewand, das trübem Honigwein sehr gleicht [...]“. Wollqualitäten und Luxusdiskurs in der Antike
2. Berit Das Gewand des Honorius

III Episteme

3. Ellen Harlizius-Klü Denkmuster in der antiken Weberei. Eine Spurensuche
4. Marie-Louise The Loom and the Ship in ancient Greece. Shared knowledge, shared terminology, cross-crafts, or cognitive maritime-textile archaeology?
5. Gunther Weben und Wahrheit. Die Hermeneutik von Geweben in Euripides' Ion
6. Henriette Over the Rainbow – Die Weberinnen Arachne und Figuren der Transgression

IV Metapoetik

7. Cédric Scheidegger Lä Einige Pendenzen. Weben und Text in der antiken Literatur
8. Julia Entgrenzungen von Proserpinas Kosmos
9. Simon Das Lied von der webenden Aphrodite. Eine metapoetische Interpretation von Nonn. Dion. 24, 242–326.

Die Autoren
Index
Index Nominum
Index Rerum

192 pages, Hardcover

Published January 31, 2016