Modern Shorthand
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Shorthand
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Author :
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Shorthand
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Author : Modern publishing company
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Shorthand
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Author : Modern Publishing Company, Hammond, Ind
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Shorthand
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Author : Archibald Cobb
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Shorthand
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Author : Hannah Boeddeker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2024-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 3111382699
Variously identified as an art, a technology, and a professional prerequisite, forms of shorthand have been in use from Antiquity to the modern day. Far from a niche corner in manuscript studies, shorthand represents an almost global phenomenon that has touched upon many aspects of everyday life and of scholarship. Due to its immediate illegibility, however, and the daunting task of decipherment, shorthand has long been neglected as a research object in its own right. The immense quantity of extant and unread shorthand manuscripts has been downplayed, as has the technology's place in cultures of learning, religious devotion, court practice, parliamentary procedure, authorial composition, corporate life, public and private writing, and the academy. As the first ever peer-reviewed volume on the subject, this book presents a much-needed introduction to shorthand, its history, and its disparate historiography, alongside eight contributions by shorthand specialists that showcase some of the many lines of inquiry that shorthand inspires across a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. For readers with a vested interest in shorthand, this volume provides a range of approaches to shorthand in the Latin West, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, upon which to orient, substantiate, and inform their own work. For general readers, this publication invites scholars to consider ways in which historically overlooked or underestimated forms of writing facilitated a variety of writing cultures in different contexts, periods, and languages.
Author : Isaac Pitman
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Shorthand
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Author : Alfred Day
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Shorthand
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Author : James Dougal Fleming
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1040047327
In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient medical discourse of melancholy humour, or black bile. Timothie Bright (1550–1615), physician and priest, prompts the juxtaposition. For he was the author, not only of the period’s original shorthand manual—Characterie (1588)—but also of the first book in English on the dark humour: The Treatise of Melancholy (1586). Bright’s account of melancholy involves a cybernetic phenomenology of the human. Essentially, we are psyches (souls or minds). We are sealed off from our bodies, operating them as automata across an interface. Psychological presence, for Bright, is illusion and pathology. Engrossing performances or representations therefore bring great danger, and so does the doctrine of predestination—less for its content than its typical delivery. Painful preaching was indispensable in sixteenth-century English Protestantism. But it falls foul of Bright’s proscriptions. These are followed by his publication of the first known system for verbatim shorthand notation since antiquity, its technique heavily inflected toward a vocabulary of the pulpit. The passionate, oral performance of the inspired preacher receives an unprecedented textual preservative—and prophylactic. Bright’s technology of information serves his phenomenology of alienation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the early modern period, the tradition of melancholy, and the history of information—as theory, and technology.
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2024-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385391741
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.