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Title Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life / edited by Anne Kolb
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (436 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Kolb, Anne -- Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life -- Problems and Results / Kolb, Anne -- I A Global Perspective -- The Development of Literacy in Early China: With the Nature and Uses of Bronze Inscriptions in Context, and More / Feng, Li -- The Creation and Spread of Scripts in Ancient India / Falk, Harry -- Literacy in Pharaonic Egypt: Orality and Literacy between Agency and Memory / Zinn, Katharina -- Anmerkungen zu Literalität und Oralität im teispidisch-achaimenidischen Iran / Wiesehöfer, Josef -- Der Raum alltäglicher weiblicher Literalität im Achaimeniden-Reich / Madreiter, Irene -- Literacy in Everyday Ancient Life: From Gabii to Gloucestershire / Harris, William V. -- II Roman Empire -- Social Groups -- Frauen und Schriftlichkeit im römischen Ägypten / Hübner, Sabine R. -- Soldiers and Documents: Insights from Nubia. The Significance of Written Documents in Roman Soldiers' Everyday Lives / Speidel, Michael A. -- Literacy in Roman Britain / Tomlin, Roger -- Schriftlichkeit und Wirtschaft im Römischen Reich / Ruffing, Kai -- Religious Practice -- Als die Götter lesen lernten: Keltisch-germanische Götternamen und lateinische Schriftlichkeit in Gallien und Germanien / Spickermann, Wolfgang -- Schriftlichkeit in der Schadenzauberpraxis am Beispiel der vulgärlateinischen defixionum tabellae / Kropp, Amina -- Administration -- Monumenta fatiscunt. Meaning and Fate of Legal Inscriptions on Bronze: the Baetica / Rufino, A. Caballos -- The Municipalization of Writing in Roman Egypt / Claytor, W. Graham -- Who Needed Writing in Graeco-Roman Egypt, and for What Purpose? Document Layout as a Tool of Literacy / Schubert, Paul -- Schreiben im Dienste des Staates. Prolegomena zu einer Kulturgeschichte der römischen scribae / Hartmann, Benjamin -- Education -- Geschichte und Geschichten im Alltag / Horster, Marietta -- Bedrohte Latinitas. Sprachliche Veränderungen auf spätantik-frühmittelalterlichen Grabinschriften aus dem Rhein-Mosel-Gebiet / Schmitz, Winfried -- Fotograph of the Participants during the Conference -- Index
Summary This volume explores the significance of literacy for everyday life in the ancient world. It focuses on the use of writing and written materials, the circumstances of their use, and different types of users. The broad geographic and chronologic frame of reference includes many kinds of written materials, from Pharaonic Egypt and ancient China through the early middle ages, yet a focus is placed on the Roman Empire
Analysis Inscriptions
Papyri
Roman Empire
Writing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Aug 2018)
Subject Inscriptions, Ancient.
Language and culture.
Literacy -- History -- To 1500
Writing -- History -- To 1500
Inscriptions, Ancient
Language and culture
Literacy
Writing
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kolb, Anne, editor.
LC no. 2018007858
ISBN 9783110594065
3110594064