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7 Dec 2018
16:15 - 17:00
Symposium

Extreme writing : unreadable Latin at the limits of the eye and the hand

Marc Smith
Voluntary illegibility in paleography
7 Dec 2018
16:15 - 17:00
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Friday 7 December 2018
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
Open to all
16:15 - 17:00
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Speaker(s)

Marc Smith

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Events

Symposium
7 Dec 2018
10:00 - 10:05
Jean-Luc Fournet

Introduction

Symposium
7 Dec 2018
10:05 - 10:45
Andréas Stauder

Celebrating signs : enigmatic writing practices in ancient Egypt

Symposium
7 Dec 2018
10:45 - 11:45
Jean-Luc Fournet

Some cases of (almost) illegible writing in Greek and Latin papyri

Symposium
7 Dec 2018
11:45 - 12:30
Naïm Vanthieghem

Arab tax receipts, hermetic grimoires ?

Symposium
7 Dec 2018
14:00 - 14:45
Yael Barukh

Tugra and Hanfusa : stylized illegibility of the signatures of sultans and rabbis in th…

Symposium
7 Dec 2018
14:45 - 15:30
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Is comfortable reading essential ? Hebrew scripts with complicated layout and writing

Symposium
7 Dec 2018
15:30 - 16:15
Philippe Papin

Hide your name but write it : graphic taboos, script twists and rhetorical preterism in…

Symposium
7 Dec 2018
16:15 - 17:00
Marc Smith

Extreme writing : unreadable Latin at the limits of the eye and the hand

See also

Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology
Voluntary illegibility in paleography

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