Literacy and Power in the Ancient World

by: Bowman, A.K. Woolf, G.

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This book consists of a series of studies, each by a specialist in a different period or area of the ancient history of the Mediterranean world and northern Europe, examining the relationship between power and the use of writing in ancient society. The studies range in date from c. 600 B.C. to A.D. 800. It is intended not to provide a complete coverage of the ancient world but to use particular case studies to examine ways in which the relationship between literacy and power can be analyzed.

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Table of Contents
1. Literacy and power in the ancient world Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf
2. The Persepolis Tablets: speech, seal and script D. M. Lewis
3. Literacy and the city-state in archaic and classical Greece Rosalind Thomas
4. Literacy and language in Egypt in the Late and Persian Periods John Ray
5. Literacy and power in Ptolemaic Egypt Dorothy J. Thompson
6. Power and the spread of writing in the West Greg Woolf
7. Texts, scribes and power in Roman Judaea M. D. Goodman
8. The Roman imperial army: letters and literacy on the northern frontier Alan K. Bowman
9. Literacy and power in early Christianity Robin Lane Fox
10. Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria S. P. Brock
11. Later Roman bureaucracy: going through the files C. M. Kelly
12. Literacy and power in the migration period Peter Heather
13. Texts as weapons: polemic in the Byzantine dark ages Averil Cameron.

Literacy and Power in the Ancient World

by: Bowman, A.K. Woolf, G.

• ISBN-13: 9780521433693 / 978-0-521-43369-3
• ISBN-03: 052143369X / 0-521-43369-X
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994

Price: 48,00 EURO

1 copy in stock