Since the very beginnings of the digital humanities, Papyrology has been in the vanguard of the application of information technologies to its own scientific purposes, for both theoretical and practical reasons (the strong awareness towards the problems of human memory and the m…
Since the very beginnings of the digital humanities, Papyrology has been in the vanguard of the application of information technologies to its own scientific purposes, for both theoretical and practical reasons (the strong awareness towards the problems of human memory and the m…
"Papyrology has always been in the vanguard of the application of information technology to its own scientific purposes. The volume represents the first attempt to deal monographically with the electronic resources for the papyrological research, tracing an epistemology, a histo…
Review text: "Die stets sorgfältig abgewogenen Urteile von S. tragen das Ihre dazu bei, dem Buch Vorbildcharakter zuzuweisen. Auch aus allgemeinhistorischer Sicht kann die Lektüre daher nur nachdrücklich empfohlen werden."Andrea Jördens in: Gnomon 8/2009.
The undertaken work about the archive of letters from familiy-members and friends of Claudius Tiberianus, soon a speculator, a kind of secret-service man, and later a veteran of the Roman army, gives an inside vision of the social and economic life in 2nd century A.D. Egypt. All…