How to Publish an Egyptian Temple?

2020 ◽  
pp. 286-303
Author(s):  
Claude Traunecker
Keyword(s):  
Graph Paper ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reflectance Transformation Imaging

This chapter aims to draw colleagues’ attention to certain important points about the principles of publishing temples. Mentioned as critical to epigraphic work are, among other things, sequential numbering, separate sheets with key plans, exploded-views of rooms, notes on the condition of the wall, collation, and working in groups. The benefits of “old-fashioned” methods, using lead pencil on graph paper, are extolled. Drawing, even without a sure hand, is above all observing and concentrating—the essence of the epigrapher’s profession. Benefits of working in this way accrue not just in the work, which requires time, concentration, and calm, but also for the worker who experiences that intellectually fertile interval. Technologies, such as reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) and orthophotography, which offer truly dazzling results, are discussed not as “new,” but are contextualized within the history of epigraphic innovation. Regardless of which method a team adopts, the purpose of all epigraphic publication should not be forgotten: to provide an easy-to-understand substitute for the monument. It is, as it were, a way of assuring the monument’s permanence.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

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