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Writing and Power in the Roman World - Literacies and Material Culture (Hardcover)
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Writing and Power in the Roman World - Literacies and Material Culture (Hardcover)
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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.
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