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Since ancient times, domestic spaces were the stage of a variety of writing practices ranging from those dictated by everyday life needs to others witnessing the “social” and “communal” dimension of these settings. In almost every culture, from antiquity to modern times, written artefacts, which are extremely different in terms of materiality and function, concur in shaping the domestic landscape...

Lecture 1/6

Michael Friedrich:

Philosophising by Hand? Manuscripts and Print in Song Neo-Confucianism (11th–12th Centuries)

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Mario Meliadò:

The Reading Mind: Practices of Annotation and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy

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Carlos Fraenkel:

Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Notes on His Translation of Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed

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Anke Graness:

Philosophy by Hand or Mouth-to-Ear Philosophy? Philosophy in Oral Traditions

Lecture 5/6

Isabelle Ratié:

Reading, Writing, Philosophising in Medieval India

Lecture 6/6

Yael Gazit:

Don’t Look Back in Anger: Reconsidering Appropriation of Past Philosophy