Writing and Power in the Roman World: Literacies and Material Culture.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eckardt, Hella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Writing materials and instruments.
Literacy > Rome.
Latin language > Written Latin.
Écriture > Matériel et instruments.
writing instruments.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Literacy.
Rome (Empire)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Understanding Literacies, Material Culture and Practice in the Roman World
  • 1. Introduction: literacies, power and identities
  • 2. The practicalities of literacy: writing implements in the Roman world
  • 3. Literacy as technology and practice
  • Part II. A Case Study
  • 4. Materials and production
  • 5. Metal inkwells in the Roman Empire
  • 6. A practice turn: thinking about inkwell use
  • 7. The spatial and social distribution of inkwells
  • Part III. Writing Equipment in Funerary Contexts and the Expression of Identities
  • 8. Literacy as performance: self-presentation of the educated elite?
  • 9. Literacy and the life course: gender
  • 10. Literacy and the life course: age
  • 11. Literacy, the body and elite identities: writing and status
  • 12. Conclusion: writing Empire through material culture.

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