Script and Scripture
Texts are part of the backbone of the historical discipline. Some have been read and reinterpreted for millennia, inspiring art around the globe, as Luke Clossey, Kyle Jackson, and Isaac Schoeber found. Others are handwritten and could be more ephemeral, if we don’t put in the work to learn to read them, as Bonnie J. Morris argues. Scraps of paper can be kept for centuries within a community, as in the “Convent Tabla.” And others are preserved by the essential work of archives, as “The Long Conference” highlighted. But whether you have rediscovered a source or are revisiting a classic, you could uncover something new.
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