Philip J Boyes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1441124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip J Boyes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip J |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyes |
| SIGNATURE | BOYES P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3453-7987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Wider World of Writing. Networks of People, Practice and Culture Underpinning Writing in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
Writing is a social practice, and as such is fundamentally entwined with a wide array of other forms of human activity, professional categories and aspects of cultural life. However, this is often not fully reflected in scholarly approaches to writing practices, which tend to focus almost exclusively on the act of inscription itself, and on the practices of literates alone. Taking as its case study the Late Bronze Age Syrian polity of Ugarit and …
The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices
Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life. The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices explores these relationships in a number of different cultural contexts and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including a…
Script and Society
When the Phoenicians Were Swedish
Olof Rudbeck's Atlantica (1679-1702) is a characteristically wide-ranging example of Early Modern scholarship in which the author draws on a compendious assortment of evidence to argue that his native Sweden was the cradle of human civilization. Within this discussion, he devotes particular attention to the Phoenicians, whom he attempts to paint as descendants of "Scythians" who had migrated to the Mediterranean from an original Swedish homeland.…
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II
Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archae…
Negotiating Imperialism and Resistance in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
Ugarit was a highly cosmopolitan, multilingual and multiscript city at the intersection of several major Late Bronze Age political and cultural spheres of influence. In the thirteenth centurybc, the city adopted a new alphabetic cuneiform writing system in the local language for certain uses alongside the Akkadian language, script and scribal practices that were standard throughout the Near East. Previous research has seen this as ‘vernacularizat…
The King of the Sidonians”
On the strength of the fact that certain kings of Tyre used the title “King of the Sidonians,” some scholars argue for the existence of a degree of political unity between Tyre and Sidon, especially during the ninth and eighth centuries b.c. This paper contends that this interpretation is unsound, since it relies to a great extent on stories told long after the period being considered, which are often of dubious historical reliability. An alterna…
The King of the Sidonians”
On the strength of the fact that certain kings of Tyre used the title “King of the Sidonians,” some scholars argue for the existence of a degree of political unity between Tyre and Sidon, especially during the ninth and eighth centuries b.c. This paper contends that this interpretation is unsound, since it relies to a great extent on stories told long after the period being considered, which are often of dubious historical reliability. An alterna…
Negotiating Imperialism and Resistance in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
Ugarit was a highly cosmopolitan, multilingual and multiscript city at the intersection of several major Late Bronze Age political and cultural spheres of influence. In the thirteenth centurybc, the city adopted a new alphabetic cuneiform writing system in the local language for certain uses alongside the Akkadian language, script and scribal practices that were standard throughout the Near East. Previous research has seen this as ‘vernacularizat…
The King of the Sidonians”
On the strength of the fact that certain kings of Tyre used the title “King of the Sidonians,” some scholars argue for the existence of a degree of political unity between Tyre and Sidon, especially during the ninth and eighth centuries b.c. This paper contends that this interpretation is unsound, since it relies to a great extent on stories told long after the period being considered, which are often of dubious historical reliability. An alterna…
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II
Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archae…
Negotiating Imperialism and Resistance in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
Ugarit was a highly cosmopolitan, multilingual and multiscript city at the intersection of several major Late Bronze Age political and cultural spheres of influence. In the thirteenth centurybc, the city adopted a new alphabetic cuneiform writing system in the local language for certain uses alongside the Akkadian language, script and scribal practices that were standard throughout the Near East. Previous research has seen this as ‘vernacularizat…
The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices
Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life. The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices explores these relationships in a number of different cultural contexts and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including a…
Script and Society
When the Phoenicians Were Swedish
Olof Rudbeck's Atlantica (1679-1702) is a characteristically wide-ranging example of Early Modern scholarship in which the author draws on a compendious assortment of evidence to argue that his native Sweden was the cradle of human civilization. Within this discussion, he devotes particular attention to the Phoenicians, whom he attempts to paint as descendants of "Scythians" who had migrated to the Mediterranean from an original Swedish homeland.…
The Wider World of Writing. Networks of People, Practice and Culture Underpinning Writing in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
Writing is a social practice, and as such is fundamentally entwined with a wide array of other forms of human activity, professional categories and aspects of cultural life. However, this is often not fully reflected in scholarly approaches to writing practices, which tend to focus almost exclusively on the act of inscription itself, and on the practices of literates alone. Taking as its case study the Late Bronze Age Syrian polity of Ugarit and …
History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient Near East History (2 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Bronze Age (2 works)