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Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life

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Languages: English, German
Published/Copyright: 2018
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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.

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Anne Kolb, University of Zurich.

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"[...] 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

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    Contents

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    Preface

    ix
    Anne Kolb
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    Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life – Problems and Results

    1
    Anne Kolb
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  • I A Global Perspective
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    The Development of Literacy in Early China: With the Nature and Uses of Bronze Inscriptions in Context, and More

    13
    Li Feng
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    The Creation and Spread of Scripts in Ancient India

    43
    Harry Falk
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    Literacy in Pharaonic Egypt: Orality and Literacy between Agency and Memory

    67
    Katharina Zinn
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    Anmerkungen zu Literalität und Oralität im teispidisch-achaimenidischen Iran

    99
    Josef Wiesehöfer
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    Der Raum alltäglicher weiblicher Literalität im Achaimeniden-Reich

    113
    Irene Madreiter
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    Literacy in Everyday Ancient Life: From Gabii to Gloucestershire

    143
    William V. Harris
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  • II Roman Empire
  • Social Groups
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    Frauen und Schriftlichkeit im römischen Ägypten

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    Sabine R. Huebner
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    Soldiers and Documents: Insights from Nubia. The Significance of Written Documents in Roman Soldiers’ Everyday Lives

    179
    Michael A. Speidel
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    Literacy in Roman Britain

    201
    Roger Tomlin
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    Schriftlichkeit und Wirtschaft im Römischen Reich

    221
    Kai Ruffing
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  • Religious Practice
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    Als die Götter lesen lernten: Keltisch-germanische Götternamen und lateinische Schriftlichkeit in Gallien und Germanien

    239
    Wolfgang Spickermann
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    Schriftlichkeit in der Schadenzauberpraxis am Beispiel der vulgärlateinischen defixionum tabellae

    261
    Amina Kropp
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  • Administration
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    Monumenta fatiscunt. Meaning and Fate of Legal Inscriptions on Bronze: the Baetica

    289
    A. Caballos Rufino
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    The Municipalization of Writing in Roman Egypt

    319
    W. Graham Claytor
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    Who Needed Writing in Graeco-Roman Egypt, and for What Purpose? Document Layout as a Tool of Literacy

    335
    Paul Schubert
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    Schreiben im Dienste des Staates. Prolegomena zu einer Kulturgeschichte der römischen scribae

    351
    Benjamin Hartmann
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  • Education
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    Geschichte und Geschichten im Alltag

    363
    Marietta Horster
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    Bedrohte Latinitas. Sprachliche Veränderungen auf spätantik-frühmittelalterlichen Grabinschriften aus dem Rhein-Mosel-Gebiet

    387
    Winfried Schmitz
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    List of Authors

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    Fotograph of the Participants during the Conference

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    Index

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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
August 21, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9783110594065
Hardcover published on:
August 21, 2018
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110591880
Paperback published on:
July 6, 2020
Paperback ISBN:
9783110710120
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
9
Main content:
427
Illustrations:
55
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110594065
eBook ISBN: 9783110594065
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110591880
Paperback ISBN: 9783110710120
Keywords for this book
Writing; Roman Empire; Inscriptions; Papyri
Audience(s) for this book
Historiker, Philologen, Epigraphiker, Papyrologen, Sprachwissenschaftler, Archäologen, Kulturwissenschaftler
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