The Rise of Graphicacy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Ildar H. Garipzanov
Diagrams, maps, and other forms of graphic visualization are nowadays discussed as a specific mode communication, graphicacy, typical the modern age with its ever-increasing role visual media in social life. This essay questions this tendency to see graphicacy by-product modernity by surveying various representational signs systems that were placed on Late Antiquity early Middle Ages, it suggests material should be seen expressions very same communication rising at time sociocultural-and more specifically, religious-transformation late Roman post-Roman worlds. With reference evidence, is defined conceptual information abstract ideas means non-figural devices, which may comprise inscribed letters, words, isolated decorative symbols.
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