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SUMMARY:"This Past Before My Eyes is My Own": The role of literacy in the reuse of inscriptions...
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 ...in post classical antiquity\n
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 History of Art 
 New Publication Speaker Series\n
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 Cosponsored 
 by Department of Art, Art History, and Design\n
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 By 
 most accounts, the "meaningful reuse" 
 of architectural fragments in the construction 
 of buildings and monuments became a popular 
 practice only in the late Roman and Byzantine 
 Mediterranean. For unlike prior instances 
 of reuse, which had taken place everywhere 
 throughout time, this new form of recycling 
 seems to have been designed to draw attention 
 to the object's previous life in a different 
 setting. This is most readily apparent in the 
 case of inscriptions, which can be recognized 
 in the walls and pavements of countless buildings 
 of the Medieval period. However, given 
 the relatively low levels of Greek and Latin 
 literacy in antiquity, it is worth asking whether 
 these reused inscriptions were meant to 
 be read, or whether it was sufficient that 
 they be recognized as ancient writing. This presentation 
 seeks to use the example of contemporary 
 art as a way to approach the question 
 and to advance the scholarly discussion, which 
 remains divided on the issue.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Holly Flynn\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0901\n
 Contact email: flynnhol@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://bookings.lib.msu.edu/event/2739886\n
LOCATION:MSU Main Library Green Room (4-West)
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