paleography
- noun
- /ˌpeɪliˈɒɡrəfi/
- Specialized
:
paleografía
- Their practice of paleography as a science masks an actual practice of it as sophistry.
Examples
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Having taken a course in paleography, I was stunned at how difficult a science it is.
Blog text (32) -
More manuscript presents an opportunity to reevaluate the paleographic argument identifying Hand D as Shakespeare's handwriting and to reconsider what support paleography can give this interest.
Academic text (2016) -
Why is epigraphy/paleography so critical?
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Some paleographers write as if paleography were an occult activity and led to arcane knowledge difficult to communicate, which must be accepted on trust.
Academic text (2016) -
The belief that the paleographic argument can identify Hand D as Shakespeare's arose when Thompson and his peers assumed that paleography is a science and can yield a certain and credible conclusion.
Academic text (2016) -
The topic was attractive because it combined areal analysis with botany, anthropology, fieldwork in remote areas, history, archival work, paleography, foreign languages, and biochemistry.
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Paleography is essential for historians studying paleography and understanding their context.
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The professor's lecture on paleography focused on how to date manuscripts accurately.
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Students in the paleography course learned to read and analyze ancient writing styles.
Surface Forms
Morphology
paleography = paleo + graph + y
The parts paleo- and graph/y are recognizable, but the term is a specialized scholarly label rather than a fully everyday compositional word.
Etymology
The word paleography comes from Greek parts palaeo- meaning 'old' and -graphy meaning 'writing', like in autograph and photograph. So, paleography is the study of old handwriting and helps experts read and date ancient documents.
