Writing and Power in the Roman World by Hella Eckardt
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Description 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.
Publisher Description
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.
Author Biography
Hella Eckardt teaches provincial Roman archaeology and material culture studies at the University of Reading. Her research focuses on theoretical approaches to the material culture of the north-western provinces and on questions of mobility and migration. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the use of Roman objects and the expression of social and cultural identities, and has published on lighting equipment in Illuminating Roman Britain (2002), objects associated with grooming and personal adornment in Styling the Body in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain: A Contextual Approach to Toilet Instruments (2008) and material culture from Britain generally in her book, Objects and Identity: Roman Britain and the North-Western Provinces (2015).
Details ISBN 1108418058 ISBN-13 9781108418058 Title Writing and Power in the Roman World Author Hella Eckardt Format Hardcover Year 2017 Pages 282 Publisher Cambridge University Press GE_Item_ID:117856004; About Us
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