IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1703: Changing Winds and Great Storms: The Dynamics of Speech Communities and Forms of Their Linguistic Self-Expression in the Eastern Mediterranean, 324-1204, I - Linguistic Engineering in Late Antiquity: The Case of Coptic
Thursday 8 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | National Science Centre, Poland, Warszawa / Uniwersytet Warszawski / Jacksonville State University, Florida |
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Organisers: | Yuliya Minets, National University, Kyiv / Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Kyiv Paweł Nowakowski, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | Yuliya Minets, National University, Kyiv / Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Kyiv |
Paper 1703-a | The Use of Coptic in Cultural Mediation in Early Islamic Egypt (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Social History |
Paper 1703-b | Languages in the Epigraphic Culture of Late Antique Egypt (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Comparative, Social History |
Paper 1703-c | Texts of Ritual Power as Voices of Non-Ecclesiastical and Non-Monastic Coptic Litterati (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
Abstract | The session focuses on the forms of linguistic and ideological interaction in the multilingual milieu of late antique and early medieval Egypt. The papers seek to undermine the traditional interpretation of Coptic as the last stage of Ancient Egyptian, a vernacular heavily influenced by Greek; to inquire into the roles Greek and Coptic played as written prestige languages in the diffusion of ideas and representations in the ever-changing religious and cultural situation in Egypt; to challenge the pan-monastic perspective on Coptic literature by including into the scholarly discussion the previously understudied semi-literary 'magical texts' or 'texts of ritual power'. |