@book{8015,
author = {Hella Eckardt},
title = {Writing and Power in the Roman World: Literacies and Material Culture},
year = {2018},
pages = {268 pp.},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
address = {New York, NY},
isbn = {9781108418058},
note = {
Examines writing tools and their different uses by age, gender and status.
Contents:
Part 1. Understanding literacies, material culture and practice in the Roman world.
- Introduction: Literacies, power and identities
- The practicalities of literacy: writing implements in the Roman world
- Literacy as technology and practice
Part 2. A case study.
- Materials and production
- Metal inkwells in the Roman Empire
- A practice turn: thinking about inkwell use
- The spatial and social distribution of inkwells
Part 3. Writing equipment in funerary contexts and the expression of identities.
- Literacy as performance: self-presentation of the educated elite?
- Literacy and the life course: gender
- Literacy and the life course: age
- Literacy, the body and elite identities: writing and status
- Conclusion: Writing empire through material culture
},
language = {English},
}