Literacy in Everyday Ancient Life: From Gabii to Gloucestershire
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William V. Harris
Abstract
This paper offers a partial survey of recent publications that bear on our understanding of literacy and illiteracy in the classical world. But its central purpose is to re-frame two major and difficult problems in the history of ancient literacy: (1) did ideology have a large role in changing the educational practices of the late classical and Hellenistic Greeks? and (2) how should we balance the various factors at work in the history of late-antique literacy, 284-641 AD? The article also advocates greater precision on the part of scholars who write about ancient literacy with regard to social classes and milieux
Abstract
This paper offers a partial survey of recent publications that bear on our understanding of literacy and illiteracy in the classical world. But its central purpose is to re-frame two major and difficult problems in the history of ancient literacy: (1) did ideology have a large role in changing the educational practices of the late classical and Hellenistic Greeks? and (2) how should we balance the various factors at work in the history of late-antique literacy, 284-641 AD? The article also advocates greater precision on the part of scholars who write about ancient literacy with regard to social classes and milieux
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface ix
- Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life – Problems and Results 1
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I A Global Perspective
- The Development of Literacy in Early China: With the Nature and Uses of Bronze Inscriptions in Context, and More 13
- The Creation and Spread of Scripts in Ancient India 43
- Literacy in Pharaonic Egypt: Orality and Literacy between Agency and Memory 67
- Anmerkungen zu Literalität und Oralität im teispidisch-achaimenidischen Iran 99
- Der Raum alltäglicher weiblicher Literalität im Achaimeniden-Reich 113
- Literacy in Everyday Ancient Life: From Gabii to Gloucestershire 143
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II Roman Empire
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Social Groups
- Frauen und Schriftlichkeit im römischen Ägypten 163
- Soldiers and Documents: Insights from Nubia. The Significance of Written Documents in Roman Soldiers’ Everyday Lives 179
- Literacy in Roman Britain 201
- Schriftlichkeit und Wirtschaft im Römischen Reich 221
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Religious Practice
- Als die Götter lesen lernten: Keltisch-germanische Götternamen und lateinische Schriftlichkeit in Gallien und Germanien 239
- Schriftlichkeit in der Schadenzauberpraxis am Beispiel der vulgärlateinischen defixionum tabellae 261
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Administration
- Monumenta fatiscunt. Meaning and Fate of Legal Inscriptions on Bronze: the Baetica 289
- The Municipalization of Writing in Roman Egypt 319
- Who Needed Writing in Graeco-Roman Egypt, and for What Purpose? Document Layout as a Tool of Literacy 335
- Schreiben im Dienste des Staates. Prolegomena zu einer Kulturgeschichte der römischen scribae 351
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Education
- Geschichte und Geschichten im Alltag 363
- Bedrohte Latinitas. Sprachliche Veränderungen auf spätantik-frühmittelalterlichen Grabinschriften aus dem Rhein-Mosel-Gebiet 387
- List of Authors 413
- Fotograph of the Participants during the Conference 415
- Index 417
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface ix
- Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life – Problems and Results 1
-
I A Global Perspective
- The Development of Literacy in Early China: With the Nature and Uses of Bronze Inscriptions in Context, and More 13
- The Creation and Spread of Scripts in Ancient India 43
- Literacy in Pharaonic Egypt: Orality and Literacy between Agency and Memory 67
- Anmerkungen zu Literalität und Oralität im teispidisch-achaimenidischen Iran 99
- Der Raum alltäglicher weiblicher Literalität im Achaimeniden-Reich 113
- Literacy in Everyday Ancient Life: From Gabii to Gloucestershire 143
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II Roman Empire
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Social Groups
- Frauen und Schriftlichkeit im römischen Ägypten 163
- Soldiers and Documents: Insights from Nubia. The Significance of Written Documents in Roman Soldiers’ Everyday Lives 179
- Literacy in Roman Britain 201
- Schriftlichkeit und Wirtschaft im Römischen Reich 221
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Religious Practice
- Als die Götter lesen lernten: Keltisch-germanische Götternamen und lateinische Schriftlichkeit in Gallien und Germanien 239
- Schriftlichkeit in der Schadenzauberpraxis am Beispiel der vulgärlateinischen defixionum tabellae 261
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Administration
- Monumenta fatiscunt. Meaning and Fate of Legal Inscriptions on Bronze: the Baetica 289
- The Municipalization of Writing in Roman Egypt 319
- Who Needed Writing in Graeco-Roman Egypt, and for What Purpose? Document Layout as a Tool of Literacy 335
- Schreiben im Dienste des Staates. Prolegomena zu einer Kulturgeschichte der römischen scribae 351
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Education
- Geschichte und Geschichten im Alltag 363
- Bedrohte Latinitas. Sprachliche Veränderungen auf spätantik-frühmittelalterlichen Grabinschriften aus dem Rhein-Mosel-Gebiet 387
- List of Authors 413
- Fotograph of the Participants during the Conference 415
- Index 417
