WRITING AND POWER IN THE ROMAN WORLD by Hella Eckardt ( 9781108418058 )

Item Details

Title:

WRITING AND POWER IN THE ROMAN WORLD
LITERACIES AND MATERIAL CULTURE

By:

Hella Eckardt

Format:

Hardback

List price:

£98.00

Our price:

£88.20

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£9.80

ISBN 10:

1108418058

ISBN 13:

9781108418058

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 October, 2017

Description:

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

Synopsis:

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 review of recent approaches to literacy during Roman antiquity and adds a distinctive material turn to our understanding of this crucial skill and the embodied practices of its use. At the heart of this study lies the nature of the relationship between the material culture of writing and socio-cultural identities in the Roman period.

Illustrations:

69 b/w illus. 13 colour illus. 10 tables

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER

LIFE AND LABOUR IN LATE ROMAN SILCHESTER (PB)

OBJECTS AND IDENTITIES (HB)