Knowledge Commons | Writing Systems | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/writing-systems/ Activity feed for the group, Writing Systems. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:08:13 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 13a261eaebccb0680eb411745f7355a1 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895619/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:43 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d043e558d86096221a4a35ffeda2ba7 Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited Blooms Taxonomy for Writing Instruction in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867938/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:01:18 -0500 As educators, we are all familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy and the way it progressively maps the cognitive activities involved in learning and constructing knowledge. Too often, however, we educators who work in writing-focused curricula ask our students to work in the higher-order cognitive domains of analysis and creation without necessarily giving…[Read more]

]]> 0 4de704b4d0c501f6fe1853cfaae95ab2 Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited Active-Learning Revision Clinics in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867933/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:01:00 -0500 Teaching the fundamentals of writing composition shouldn't be boring. It should be active, engaging, and EMPOWERING! Most students, whether they consciously articulate it or not, want to vanquish their writing anxiety. They want to develop confidence in their ability to compose and revise strong prose that will help them thrive in coursework and…[Read more]

]]> 0 07e9df1fbdc04558751ee9ef90f3e015 Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited For Students, By Students: Ignite Peer-to-Peer Content Development (Course Review Activity) in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867929/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:00:46 -0500 In courses that end in summative final exams or capstone projects, it can be challenging to get students to pull back and identify the learning that they've done across an entire unit or semester rather than only focus on the learning they've undertaken most recently. As part of our larger sequence of active-learning-based lesson plans designed to…[Read more]

]]> 0 f959c06f65cdedad9324b1cb33b1d690 David Olmsted deposited Alphabetic Akkadian Lexicon - 4th Edition 2023 in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848340/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:24:14 -0400 The Akkadian of this lexicon was spoken by Neolithic farmers who migrated to Europe from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This lexicon combined with the new genetic migration information demonstrates that Europe had its own ancient Pagan civilization just as important and innovative as any other ancient civilization. This lexicon begins…[Read more]

]]> 0 f561a42109cf2a85a144333e8b7d451d David Olmsted deposited Lachish Ivory Comb Text Translation From Minoan Linear A (1650 BCE) in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823285/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 02:24:26 -0500 The text signs on this comb are Minoan Linear A and not the Proto-Canaanite of Serabit el-Khadim as claimed in its 2022 archaeology report. Like most pre-classical linear texts found by archaeology, the language of this text is Akkadian which was the language of the Neolithic farming culture which spread into Europe from the Near-East starting…[Read more]

]]> 0 ecb74396422d81da75c01e28d687add3 Anna P. Judson deposited Learning to spell in Linear B: orthography and scribal training in Mycenaean Pylos in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781150/ Tue, 10 May 2022 02:23:45 -0400 This article analyses orthographic variation in the Linear B tablets from the Mycenaean palace of Pylos. Despite the general consistency in spelling found in Linear B texts from all sites, variation was in certain cases both permissible and entirely normal, even within the work of a single writer. Examining the patterns of orthographic variation…[Read more]

]]> 0 214a5ce1c0bf1311cc5ac7791cfcd7bb David Olmsted deposited Heraklez (Hercules) Originated in Etruria as Revealed by Pottery Images having Bidirectional Alphabetic Akkadian Pottery Texts (550 BCE) in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774613/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 02:25:07 -0400 Heroes and Demons entered the northern Mediterranean culture between 600 and 500 BCE when the culture was transforming from the magical Ancient Pagan Paradigm to a lordified Paradigm which forced deity personification making them lords in a royal pantheon instead of powers. This caused an explosion in the number of deities and other divine realm…[Read more]

]]> 0 337920fb5c1cb1a92d53983868b0533f Anna P. Judson deposited Diversity in writing systems: embracing multiple perspectives in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770509/ Sat, 05 Feb 2022 02:24:20 -0500 Introduction to "Diversity in Writing Systems: Embracing Multiple Perspectives", a special issue of Written Language and Literacy containing six papers from the Association of Written Language and Literacy's 2019 conference of the same time.

This is the accepted version; the published version is available at…[Read more]

]]> 0 654d5741d1d1dd791445f23832e70953 David Olmsted deposited Many Minoan Linear A Ritual Supply Texts Surrounding a Drought Translated in Alphabetic Akkadian (1700 BCE) in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761752/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 02:23:44 -0500 The commercial level trading which emerged at the start of the Bronze Age was made possible by a common written language. That language was Akkadian in its syllabic (cuneiform) form, its phonetic form (Phaistos Disk and these Minoan Linear A tablets) and all the early alphabetic texts prior to the rise of Greek and Latin. These translated Minoan…[Read more]

]]> 0 bbdaa855c9a423c42e71bae4131d1d47 David Olmsted deposited Mediterranean and Alphabetic Akkadian Lexicon 2 nd Edition -February 2021 in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740806/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 02:24:58 -0400 The existence of Akkadian in the Mediterranean is due to the commercial trade which developed during the Bronze Age. Such trade required a common written language in order to function. Translations of archaeological texts using the strict scholar’s standar d show that this first Mediterranean wide language was Akkadian before it was replaced by G…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a20e22f604cd49d36737a645e22a204 Anna P. Judson deposited Two new Linear B tablets and an enigmatic find from Bronze Age Pylos (Palace of Nestor) in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740271/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 02:24:08 -0400 This article presents two newly-discovered fragments of Linear B tablets from recent excavations at the site of Ano Englianos, Bronze Age Pylos, along
with a third possibly inscribed object.

The final publication is available at http://www.degruyter.com.

]]> 0 c2c032e47811a2739c4a9071d8e6783a Anna Dorofeeva deposited Visualizing codicologically and textually complex manuscripts in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715360/ Tue, 03 Nov 2020 02:25:35 -0500 This article presents the collation map, a diagrammatic method for visually mapping the texts of complex medieval Western manuscripts against their material structures. Beginning with an overview of collation formulae – currently the most frequently used method of representing collation – the article argues that the collation map is a more use…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1db93cb727fb64797273624d3356344 Anna P. Judson deposited Review: José L. Melena and Richard J. Firth. The Knossos Tablets. Sixth Edition (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: INSTAP Academic Press, 2019, 696pp., 9 figs, 3 tables, hbk, ISBN 978-1-93153-496-3) in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1706067/ Sun, 23 Aug 2020 02:23:39 -0400 Review of the 6th edition of the Linear B tablets from Knossos in transcription.
This is the accepted manuscript; the published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2020.32.

]]> 0 b71e203639ae03ec408401e99e45fa5a Anna P. Judson deposited Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the "extra" signs in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703924/ Sat, 01 Aug 2020 02:24:51 -0400 This chapter examines the ways in which the Linear B 'extra' signs - syllabograms which can in certain circumstances replace the 'core' signs of the Linear B syllabary - are often used as evidence for the process by which this writing system was created from its parent writing system, Linear A, and thus, by extension, for reconstructing aspects of…[Read more]

]]> 0 a589cad6e31292060c71a9f45e3ac1c0 Nancy Roth deposited Kameraden und Kohlköpfe: John Heartfield im Universum der technischen Bilder in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702953/ Sun, 26 Jul 2020 02:24:07 -0400 The essay positions John Heartfield (1891-1968) as the kind of artist -- or better, image-maker or imager -- that Vilém Flusser described in his book, Into the Universe of Technical Images. The photomontages, for which Heartfield is best known, overturn the media priorities of the newspaper in which they appear. More like theatre or film, they…[Read more]

]]> 0 4531021439e6e644fb48cb44c9d78037 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/groups/writing-systems/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-9/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:19:08 -0400 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 - August 29

I'd like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt's novel Bottom's Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 751ad404326ab287d0d8c60b2175eb7b Deborah Thorpe deposited Health at the writing desk of John Ruskin: a study of handwriting and illness in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664148/ Sun, 22 Sep 2019 16:25:28 -0400 Though John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is remembered principally for his work as a theorist, art critic, and historian of visual culture, he wrote exhaustively about his health in his correspondence and diaries. Ruskin was prone to recurring depressive and hypochondriacal feelings in his youth and adulthood. In 1871, at the age of 52, he developed an i…[Read more]

]]> 0 407d7132b7ae85b27a24e37fae8147f1 Damir Gazetic deposited Школе и образовање месопотамских писара in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659995/ Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:39:32 -0400 Мало тога је познато о месопотамском образовању до краја 3. миленијума пре Христа. Из доступних података може се извести закључак да је у време Треће династије Ура (21. век пре Христа) писање учено “на послу”, у једном шегртском односу према искуснијем писару, истим начином којим су се учили и остали занати. Много већим бројем података распо…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b8e479ce0ed4f970502ff7c7c789f56 Damir Gazetic deposited Клинописни буквар. Клинасто писмо за почетнике in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659994/ Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:39:31 -0400 Дело које се налази пред читаоцима представља својеврсну новину на овим просторима. Приручник ове врсте, колико је мени познато, није до сада постојао на српском језику. Ова чињеница је, пре свега, последица недовољне заинтересованости, самим тим и неупућености у проблеме једног тако значајног цивилизацијског феномена као што је клинасто писмо.…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c662ad1095253e6d1b5b7efc61856c7 Damir Gazetic deposited Бројањем до писма. Настанак клинописа у древној Месопотамији in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659981/ Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:37:28 -0400 Најстарији клинописни записи, пореклом из древног сумерског града Урука, датирају се на око 3200 година пре Христа. Почеци клинастог писма, међутим, сежу дубоко у прошлост, хиљадама година пре његове званичне појаве. Порекло му лежи у древном систему бројања и рачунања, коришћеном од стране раних пољопривредних култура древног Блиског истока...

]]> 0 f58ff1a888e53e9b54f39b935bedce19 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Why Daghestan is Good to Think: Moshe Gammer, Daghestan, and Global Islamic History in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627151/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 16:29:01 -0500 During the final decade of his productive life, Moshe Gammer (1950-2013) edited the first major English-language series on Daghestani philology. This chapter examines key aspects of Gammer’s legacy, while offering an overview of Daghestani philology from the colonial period to the present, and outlining how this field of inquiry enables us to r…[Read more]

]]> 0 90526d1757a3016d5b2a4e6f2258d8d0 Natalia Elvira Astoreca deposited Escritura e Identidad: el caso de Pafos in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610389/ Sat, 09 Jun 2018 04:13:12 -0400 During most of Antiquity, the Greek-speaking kingdoms in Cyprus used syllabic writing systems for the Cypriot dialect. Paphos, which was one of the most powerful kingdoms in the island, used a special variant of the Cypriot syllabary. Although the circumstances seemed to favour the adoption of the Greek alphabet as a writing system, the Paphians…[Read more]

]]> 0 c82794c46b9e601e72da947b4e4effe6 Evina Steinova deposited Technical Signs in Early Medieval Manuscripts Copied in Irish Minuscule in the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1600060/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 04:13:56 -0500 Besides glosses and other textual annotations, early medieval Latin manuscript commonly feature technical signs, annotation symbols and sigla that reflect readership or provide a framework for interpretation and use. The early medieval Insular book users were particularly keen on using such devices. This article maps the usage of technical signs…[Read more]

]]> 0 05f66a3a525e29c3062fe0b65923f596 Olalekan Adigun posted an update in the group Writing Systems: I posted a piece on my Facebook wall about two emails I sent […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573669/ Fri, 09 Jun 2017 09:48:40 -0400 I posted a piece on my Facebook wall about two emails I sent to two Research Institutes, one in Abuja (Nigeria) and the other in New York (USA). Despite the fact that Lagos (where I live) to Abuja is just about 300 km by road, I haven’t got a response, let alone have any assurance that my mail is being attended to. But, I have since gotten a r…[Read more]

]]> 0 02f2c42573ff56ec32948048c14cada1 Natalia Elvira Astoreca created the group Writing Systems https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573617/ Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:56:51 -0400 0