期刊名称：Fragments : Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts
印刷版ISSN：2161-8585
电子版ISSN：2161-8585
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
出版社：MPublishing
摘要：Rubble, ruins, scraps, shards. Stark foundations, broken tablets, partial chapters, erratic transcriptions. Translations of vanished originals, titles of lost texts, palimpsests of anonymous works. Scholars of ancient and medieval periods work with fragments. The tombs and houses they excavate, and the unfamiliar genres they confront, once constituted part of coherent civilizations, of meaningful ways of seeing and representing the world. Neglectful time has destroyed or changed these civilizations, and has eroded the ligatures that connected their social structure to their built environment, their literature to their religious practices, and their landscapes to their sense of time.
