Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life

Edited by: Anne Kolb

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110594065

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Anne Kolb, University of Zurich.

Reviews

"[...] it must be said that no library with claims to aserious interest in literacy can afford to be without it. [...] Anne Kolb has done an absolutely first-rate job in editing and presenting the contents; de Gruyter have matched her excellence with a handsome, well-designed book. Both deserve our warm thanks.
John Muir in: Classics For All (09.01.2019), https://classicsforall.org.uk/book-reviews/literacy-in-ancient-everyday-life/

"[an] exciting volume [...]"
Minna Skafte Jensen in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.04.45

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Anne Kolb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life – Problems and Results Anne Kolb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I A Global Perspective
The Development of Literacy in Early China: With the Nature and Uses of Bronze Inscriptions in Context, and More Li Feng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
The Creation and Spread of Scripts in Ancient India Harry Falk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Literacy in Pharaonic Egypt: Orality and Literacy between Agency and Memory Katharina Zinn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Anmerkungen zu Literalität und Oralität im teispidisch-achaimenidischen Iran Josef Wiesehöfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Der Raum alltäglicher weiblicher Literalität im Achaimeniden-Reich Irene Madreiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Literacy in Everyday Ancient Life: From Gabii to Gloucestershire William V. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
II Roman Empire
Social Groups
Frauen und Schriftlichkeit im römischen Ägypten Sabine R. Huebner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Soldiers and Documents: Insights from Nubia. The Significance of Written Documents in Roman Soldiers’ Everyday Lives Michael A. Speidel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Literacy in Roman Britain Roger Tomlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Schriftlichkeit und Wirtschaft im Römischen Reich Kai Ruffing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Religious Practice
Als die Götter lesen lernten: Keltisch-germanische Götternamen und lateinische Schriftlichkeit in Gallien und Germanien Wolfgang Spickermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Schriftlichkeit in der Schadenzauberpraxis am Beispiel der vulgärlateinischen defixionum tabellae Amina Kropp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Administration
Monumenta fatiscunt. Meaning and Fate of Legal Inscriptions on Bronze: the Baetica A. Caballos Rufino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
The Municipalization of Writing in Roman Egypt W. Graham Claytor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Who Needed Writing in Graeco-Roman Egypt, and for What Purpose? Document Layout as a Tool of Literacy Paul Schubert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Schreiben im Dienste des Staates. Prolegomena zu einer Kulturgeschichte der römischen scribae Benjamin Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Education
Geschichte und Geschichten im Alltag Marietta Horster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Bedrohte Latinitas. Sprachliche Veränderungen auf spätantik-frühmittelalterlichen Grabinschriften aus dem Rhein-Mosel-Gebiet Winfried Schmitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
List of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Fotograph of the Participants during the Conference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Historiker, Philologen, Epigraphiker, Papyrologen, Sprachwissenschaftler, Archäologen, Kulturwissenschaftler
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 427
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 55
Keywords: Writing; Roman Empire; Inscriptions; Papyri

eBook

Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110594065

Hardcover

Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110591880

Paperback

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110710120