Writing and Power in the Roman World
Hella (University of Reading) Eckardt
Cambridge University Press, 2017
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The book offers a new, material angle on literacy in the Roman world by examining writing equipment, in particular inkwells. It explores how writing equipment shaped practices such as posture and handwriting and careful analysis of the burial data shows considerable numbers of women and children buried with writing equipment.
- ISBN-13
- 9781108418058
- ISBN-10
- 1108418058
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2017
- Publication date
- 2017-10-26
- Pages
- 282
- Dimensions
- 187x261x23
- Weight
- 728