Screen LibraryWriting and power in the Roman world : literacies and material culture /
"In this book, Hella Eckardt offers new insights into literacy in the Roman world by examining the tools that enabled writing, such as inkwells, styli and tablets. Literacy was an important skill in the ancient world and power could be and often was, exercised through texts. Eckardt explores ho...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"In this book, Hella Eckardt offers new insights into literacy in the Roman world by examining the tools that enabled writing, such as inkwells, styli and tablets. Literacy was an important skill in the ancient world and power could be and often was, exercised through texts. Eckardt explores how writing equipment shaped practices such as posture and handwriting and her careful analysis of burial data shows considerable numbers of women and children interred with writing equipment, notably inkwells, in an effort to display status as well as age and gender. The volume offers a comprehensive re |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, forms ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-260) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108418058 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 1108418058 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | Z45 |
| CLC: | I730.06 |
| Call Number: | I730.06/E191 |
| Contents: | Part I. Understanding literacies, material culture and practice in the Roman world. Introduction: Literacies, power and identities ; The practicalities of literacy: writing implements in the Roman world ; Literacy as technology and practice -- Part II. A case study. Materials and production ; Metal inkwells in the Roman Empire ; A practice turn: thinking about inkwell use ; The spatial and social distribution of inkwells -- Part III. Writing equipment in funerary contexts and the expression of identities. Literacy as performance: self-presentation of the educated elite? ; Literacy and the li |