Info Of Ancient Noesis Networks: A Social Geography Of Cuneiform Scholarship Inward First-Millennium Assyria Together With Babylonia

Ancient Knowledge Networks:  A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship inward First-Millennium Assyria together with Babylonia 
Eleanor Robson

ISBN: 9781787355941
Publication: November 14, 2019

Ancient Knowledge Networks is a mass virtually how cognition travels, inward minds together with bodies as good as inward writings. It explores the forms cognition takes together with the meanings it accrues, together with how these meanings are shaped yesteryear the peoples who purpose it.
Addressing the relationships betwixt political power, menage unit of measurement ties, religious commitments together with literate scholarship inward the ancient Middle East of the starting fourth dimension millennium BC, Eleanor Robson focuses on 2 regions where cuneiform script was the predominant writing medium: Assyria inward the northward of modern-day Syrian Arab Republic together with Iraq, together with Babylonia to the southward of modern-day Baghdad. She investigates how networks of cognition enabled cuneiform intellectual civilisation to suffer together with adjust over the class of 5 basis empires until its eventual demise inward the mid-first century BC. In doing so, she as good studies Assyriological together with historical method, both directly together with over the yesteryear 2 centuries, quest how the plain has shaped together with been shaped yesteryear the academic concerns together with fashions of the day. Above all, Ancient Knowledge Networks is an experiment inward writing virtually ‘Mesopotamian science’, as it has frequently been known, using geographical together with social approaches to convey novel insights into the intellectual history of the world’s starting fourth dimension empires.

Praise for Ancient Knowledge Networks
'Eleanor Robson’s Ancient Knowledge Networks offers a fascinating portrait of the social together with geographical life of cuneiform scholarship, scribal learning, or ṭupšarrūtu. It examines high cuneiform civilisation inward the damage of the texts' ain taxonomies of knowledge, patch taking amount draw of piece of employment organisation human relationship of relevant archaeological show together with employing micro- together with macro-geographical analysis. H5N1 lucid presentation of novel ideas concerning the Assyrian together with Babylonian first-millennium intelligentsia together with their patrons, Ancient Knowledge Networks is a mass for cuneiformists as good as non-specialist readers exterior the ancient Middle Eastern fields.' - Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley 

1. Introduction
2. From ‘Ashurbanipal’s Library’ together with ‘the flow of tradition’ to novel approaches to cuneiform scholarship
3. Trust inward Nabu? Assyrian regal attitudes to courtroom scholarship
4. The writing-board was at my house: scholarly together with textual mobility inward seventh-century Assyria
5. Grasping the righteous sceptre: Nabu, scholarship, together with the kings of Babylonia
6. At the gate of Eanna: Babylonian scholarly spaces earlier together with afterward the early on 5th century
7. Conclusions: Towards a social geography of cuneiform scholarship
Bibliography
Index

Eleanor Robson is Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at UCL. She is every bit interested inward the social together with political history of the cuneiform cultures of ancient Iraq, 5000–2000 years agone together with the structure of cognition virtually ancient Republic of Iraq inward over the yesteryear 2 centuries. Her Mathematics inward Ancient Iraq: H5N1 Social History (2008) won the History of Science Society’s Pfizer Prize inward 2011. With United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland together with Iraqi colleagues she runs the AHRC/GCRF-funded Nahrein Network (2017–21), which fosters the sustainable evolution of history, heritage together with the humanities inward Republic of Iraq together with its neighbours.