Editor:
Nicholas Sims-Williams
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers
Abstract:
Containing a variety of texts ranging from liturgy to pharmacology via hagiography, calendars and ascetical works by Isaac of Nineveh, this volume completes the publication of all known Christian Sogdian texts. This volume completes the publication of the Christian Sogdian texts of the Berlin Turfan Collection begun by F. W. K. Müller in 1907. Several Syriac texts are also included, in particular a series of liturgical texts in Syriac with Sogdian rubrics (edited in collaboration with J. F. Coakley).
The texts edited here are mostly short but extremely varied and interesting. The Syriac liturgical fragments are some of the earliest surviving witnesses to the liturgy of the "Church of the East", though the Sogdian rubrics which accompany them show that those who performed them were not native speakers of Syriac. Other texts connected with the liturgy include a Sogdian version of the Gloria in excelsis and a text explaining how to calculate the date of Easter or Lent. Hagiographical texts include fragments of the martyrdoms of St George and of Cyriacus and Julitta as well as part of the so-called "Six Books" on the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Two pharmacological fragments (edited in collaboration with Dieter Maue) show familiarity with Indian medicine, while a "prayer-amulet" belongs rather to a Syriac tradition. Finally, a chapter contributed by Adrian Pirtea contains the re-edition of a well-preserved folio identified by him as a Sogdian version of a work by Isaac of Nineveh.
The edition and translation of the texts is accompanied by a detailed commentary. The volume is completed by a full glossary, a bibliography, and a word-index covering all five of the author’s volumes of Christian Sogdian texts in the series BTT.
Author:
Alice Yao
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Publication Year:
2016
Abstract:
Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age kingdoms. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie shell containers--have given archaeologists and historians a glimpse of the extraordinary wealth, artistry, and power exercised by highland leaders in prehistory. After a millennium of rule however, imperial conquest under the Han state reduced local power, leading to the disappearance of Bronze Age traditions and a fraught process of assimilation.
Instead of a clash between center and periphery or barbarism and civilization, The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China examines the classic study of imperial conquest as a confrontation of different political times. Alice Yao grounds an archaeological account of the region where local landscape histories and funerary traditions bring to light a history of competing elite lineages, warrior cultures, and of kingly genealogies. In particular, this book illustrates how buried precious material objects--drums, ornate weaponry, and cowries--enabled the transmission and memorialization of biographies and lineage wealth across successive generations. A provocative picture emerges of imperial absorption and change as a problem entangling the generational time of highland leadership and its political cycles and the penetration of Chinese dynastic history as well as time of bureaucracy and state economy. Yao extends conventional approaches to empires to show how prehistoric forms of temporal experience can complicate imperial efforts to incorporate and unify time.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. De-centering a historicity of the periphery
1. History regained in prehistory
2. Death and funerary ritual: where multiple time frames converge
Part II. Bronze Age histories
3. Time and place in the early Bronze Age
4. Bronze kettledrums and iconic halberds: the political symbols of an emerging regional tradition (650-500BC)
5. A southwest political time (500-250BC)
Part III. Native subjects and Han rule
6. A divided and entangled imperial frontier
7. The d(eb)atability of the past: the past in the imperial present
Editor:
植木久行
Publication Year:
2015
Publisher:
研文出版
Table of Contents:
1. 中国西北出土木簡概説（冨谷至）
- 木簡の発見
- 簡牘の形状と名称
- 辺境出土簡の時代
- 辺境行政と漢簡の内容
2. 漢代辺境出土文書にみえる年中行事――夏至と臘（目黒杏子）
はじめに事――「暦譜（カレンダー）」に記された時節／「元康五年詔書冊」の概要／夏至の行事の内容／公務は休みになったのか？／前漢時代の世界観における夏至の意味／再び夏至の儀礼、行事の意図／臘肉銭簿」から／臘の情景／臘への王朝の関与／臘の慣行としての賜物／「臘銭」と「臘肉」／「臘肉銭簿」作成の背景 ／おわりに事――年中行事と王朝支配
3. 木札が行政文書となるとき――木簡文書のオーソライズ（土口史記）
- 兵卒の身分を記すリスト／掛け売りの証明書／「功労案」（勤務評価書）の見本
封印
- 官印の取り扱い／辺境簡における印／封印が守るもの／封印の破損／私印の使用
署名
-「長官自署」説／「属吏代署」説／紙の時代の署名／「異筆」署名出現の条件
