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by Harold Adams Innis


  Plantin, 180.

  Plato, 68, 70, 88, 110-11, 115, 117, 154, 168.

  Plautus, 119.

  Pliny, 119 n., 127, 129.

  poetry, 8, 12, 37, 69, 70, 71-5, 93, 131.

  political organizations, 7, 19, 24-5, 29, 39, 150-1;

  Hittite, 42;

  Assyrian, 44-5, 47;

  Hebrew, 54;

  Persian, 57-8, 64-6.

  Polybius, 117.

  polygamy, 57.

  Pontifex maximus, 102, 104, 123.

  pontifices, 102.

  Pope, 194.

  Poseidonius, 117.

  postal services, 58, 125, 150, 181.

  Potosi, 182.

  Praetors, 103-5, 116;

  edicts, 105;

  peregrinus, 104;

  urbanus, 104, 120, 122, 126.

  Prague, 165.

  printing, 151-2, 171, 173-6, 177, 178, 193.

  property, 105-6, 164, 190.

  Prophets, 56, 63, 109.

  prose, 69-70, 78, 92, 96-7, 113, 116-7, 187-8.

  Provence, 160.

  prudentes, 104.

  Psalms, 109.

  Psellus, 154.

  Ptolemies, 108-9, 118, 123.

  Ptolemy I, 109.

  Ptolemy II, 109, 112.

  public credit, 189-90.

  publishing, 193-4.

  Pulitzer, 203, 206.

  pulp and paper, 5-6.

  Pythagoras, 88-9, 110.

  pyramids, 14, 17.

  Q

  Quintilian, 129.

  Quintus Mercius Scaevola, 120.

  R

  Ra, 13-14, 16, 20-1.

  Rabelais, 179.

  radio, 204-5, 207, 209, 216.

  Rameses II, 25, 42.

  Rameses XI, 25.

  Ras Shamra-Ugarit, 50-1.

  reciprocity, 204.

  Reformation, 183.

  Renan, 67.

  res publica, 106.

  res privata, 106.

  Reuchlin, John, 176.

  Rhazes of Khorasan, 157.

  rhetoric, 114, 116-7, 120, 128-9.

  Rhodes, 100, 107, 117.

  Richardson, 193.

  Rimini, Council of, 136.

  Robertson, 194.

  Roger of Sicily, 156.

  Roman Church, 134, 136-7, 144, 146, 149;

  separation from Eastern Church, 154-5, 159.

  Rome, 7, 12, 101, 102, 103, 107, 113, 115-6, 118, 121-2, 124-5, 127, 129, 132, 133, 137, 148, 154, 178, 184.

  Roosevelt, F. D., 204, 209.

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 204.

  Rousseau, 198, 211.

  Royal Society, 187-8.

  Russell, 200.

  Russia, 209-10.

  S

  Saevius Sulpicius Rufus, 120.

  St. Augustine, 211.

  St. Bartholomew, 178.

  St. Basil, 141, 142.

  St. Benedict, 142-3, 147.

  St. Clement, 133.

  St. Cyprian, 141.

  St. Cyril, 154.

  St. John Cassian, 142.

  St. Methodius, 154.

  St. Patrick, 143.

  St. Sophia, 138.

  Salic law, 147, 182.

  Salvus Julianus, 126.

  Samaria, 56.

  Samarkand, 152.

  Samos, 88, 110.

  Sapir, 8.

  Sappho, 75.

  Sardis, 57-8.

  Sargon, 45.

  Sargon of Agade, 35.

  Sassanids, 135.

  satraps, 58.

  Saturn, 107.

  Saul, 54.

  Scaliger, 178, 180.

  science, 41, 79, 80, 92, 110, 115, 187.

  Scipio Amelianus, 117.

  Scot, Michael, 157, 158.

  Scott, 194.

  scribes, 19, 27, 28, 33, 58.

  sculpture, 53, 65, 93, 130.

  Scythians, 48, 57.

  Seljuk Turks, 154.

  Sellasia, 113.

  semantics, 205.

  Senate, 102-3, 104, 107, 116, 120-1, 123, 124, 126.

  Seneca, 127.

  Sennacherib, 46, 48.

  Septimus Severus, 124, 127.

  Serapeum, 108, 109.

  Serapis, 108, 122, 123, 124, 136, 141.

  Seville, 157.

  Sextus Aelius, 120.

  Shakespeare, 182.

  Shalmanesu I, 42.

  Shalmanesu III, 44.

  Shalmanesu V, 45.

  Shamash, 46.

  shorthand, 120.

  Sibylline books, 101, 122, 136.

  Sicily, 82, 89, 101, 107, 114, 156, 157.

  sideral year, 13, 16.

  Sidon, 52.

  Seleucids, 108, 134.

  Simonides, 94.

  Sinai, 49.

  Sirius, 13.

  Smith, Adam, 194.

  Socrates, 67-8, 70.

  Solomon, 45, 54.

  Solon, 82, 83-6, 89.

  Somers, Lord, 212.

  Sophocles, 95.

  Sorokin, 1.

  space, in relation to communication, 7, 11, 29, 65, 100, 139, 167, 171-2, 215-17.

  Spain, 107, 128, 139, 148, 152, 157, 167, 181, 190.

  Sparta, 86, 99-100.

  Spencer, Herbert, 9.

  Spengler, 1.

  Spenser, 182.

  Sprat, 188.

  stamp taxes, 193, 195-6, 200.

  staple products, 4-5.

  Star Chamber, 186.

  Stationers' Company, 191.

  Steele, 193.

  Stephen, 145.

  Stephen II, 146.

  stereotype, 202.

  stichometry, 119.

  Stilicho, 136.

  Stoicism, 114-15, 117-8.

  stone, 7, 10, 17, 18, 22, 25, 29, 65, 210;

  stonecutters' wages, 113 n.

  Strabo, 110.

  Subbiluluima, 42.

  Sulla, 118, 121.

  Sumer, 30, 35.

  Sumer-Abum, 36.

  Sumerian, 32, 35-8, 46, 54, 65.

  Susa, 58.

  Swift, 193.

  Switzerland, 178, 180.

  Syracuse, 114.

  Syria, 23, 42, 43, 44, 48, 50, 66, 137, 138.

  T

  Tabennisi, 141.

  tabloids, 204.

  Tacitus, 129.

  Talmud, 132.

  Tarentum, 122.

  Tarn, 113.

  taxation, 116, 121, 125.

  Teggart, F. J., 7 n., 10 n.

  telegraph, 200, 202.

  Terence, 119.

  Thackeray, 201.

  Thales, 77-8.

  theatre, 186.

  Thebans, 100.

  Thebes, 22, 25, 47, 108.

  Themistocles, 91.

  Theodoric, 142.

  Theodosius, 136.

  Theodosius II, 137.

  Theognis, 94.

  Theophano, 149.

  Theophrastus, 118.

  Thoth, 14-15, 21, 23, 68.

  Thotmes II, 42.

  Thotmes IV, 23.

  Thutmosis III, 22.

  Tiberius, 123, 127.

  Tibet, 152.

  Tiglath-Pileser, 43, 49.

  Tiglath-Pileser I, 47.

  Tiglath-Pileser III, 45.

  Tigris, 30.

  Time, in relation to media of communication, 7, 10-11, 14, 29, 65-6, 100, 130, 139, 167, 171-2, 215-7.

  Times, The, 200-1, 206.

  Tiro, 120.

  Titus, 132.

  Toledo, 157, 158.

  Tory, Geoffrey, 179.

  Toulouse, 159.

  Toynbee, 1, 211-12.

  Trade oligarchies, 65.

  Trajan, 123, 127, 129, 130.

  translations, 67, 115, 132, 134, 153, 157-60.

  transmigration of souls, 87, 94.

  tribunes, 102.

  Tripertita, 120.

  Trollope, 201.

  troubadours, 166.

  Troy, 43.

  Turkestan, 152.

  Tut-ankh-Amen, 24.

  Tyndale, 177.

  type, 173
-4, 180, 185.

  tyrants, 86, 89, 93, 97, 101.

  Tyre, 52, 76.

  U

  Unam Sanctum, 162.

  universities, 153-4, 157, 169, 176.

  Ur, 35.

  Uruk, 38.

  Urukagina, 34.

  Urwick, E. J., 11.

  Utrecht, 181.

  V

  Valens, 136.

  Vanni, 42, 44.

  Veda, 60, 151.

  Venice, 147, 155, 169, 175, 181.

  Venus, 61.

  vernacular, 159-60, 162-6, 176, 178-9, 183.

  Verona, 159.

  Vespasian, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130.

  Virgil, 128.

  Vitellius, 126.

  Vitruvius, 119.

  Vivarium, 142.

  Voltaire, 10, 185.

  Vulgate, 147.

  W

  Waldo, Peter, 159.

  Wallas, Graham, 11, 12-13.

  Walpole, 193, 196.

  wars, religious, 191.

  wax tablets, 132.

  Wearmouth, 144.

  weights and measures, 40, 41, 48.

  Wesley, 195.

  Westminster Gazette, 206.

  Whitby, 144.

  Whitefield, 195.

  Whitehead, 111.

  Wilkes, 195.

  William and Mary, 191.

  William of Occam, 161.

  William of Orange, 180.

  Wilson, Woodrow, 204.

  Wolsey, Thomas, 182.

  women, 74, 75, 106, 166, 178, 195.

  Woolner, 71.

  writing, 11-12, 66, 69-70, 118-9, 121, 132, 147-8;

  sacred character of, 14-15, 21, 53;

  papyrus and, 18-19, 28-9;

  stone and, 18, 25-6;

  Sumerian, 30-3, 36, 37;

  Elamite, 36;

  Hittite, 42, 43, 44;

  Aramaic, 48, 49, 50;

  Persian, 58;

  Hebrew, 63;

  Minoan, 70;

  written law 82-3, 102-7;

  spread in Greece, 96-7;

  Graeco-Etruscan script, 101;

  demotic script, 109;

  Chinese, 150;

  parchment and, 168-9.

  Wulfilas, 136.

  Wycliffe, 164-5.

  X

  Xativa, 156.

  Xenophanes, 93.

  Xerxes, 59.

  Y

  Yarrow, 144.

  York, 144.

  Z

  Zacharias, Pope, 146.

  Zarathushtra, 59, 60.

  Zenger, Peter, 196.

  Zenjuli, 43.

  Zeno, 114, 137, 138, 153.

  Zenobia, 124.

  Zeus, 76, 93.

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