TY - SER
AU - Hella Eckardt
CY - New York, NY
LA - English
N1 - <p>Examines writing tools and their different uses by age, gender and status.&nbsp;</p><p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><p>Part 1. Understanding literacies, material culture and practice in the Roman world.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Introduction: Literacies, power and identities</li><li>The practicalities of literacy: writing implements in the Roman world</li><li>Literacy as technology and practice&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 2. A case study.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Materials and production</li><li>Metal inkwells in the Roman Empire</li><li>A practice turn: thinking about inkwell use</li><li>The spatial and social distribution of inkwells&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 3. Writing equipment in funerary contexts and the expression of identities.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Literacy as performance: self-presentation of the educated elite?</li><li>Literacy and the life course: gender</li><li>Literacy and the life course: age</li><li>Literacy, the body and elite identities: writing and status</li><li>Conclusion: Writing empire through material culture</li></ul>
PB - Cambridge University Press
PP - New York, NY
PY - 2018
SN - 9781108418058
EP - 268 pp.
TI - Writing and Power in the Roman World: Literacies and Material Culture
ER -