Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean Practices and Adaptations (Volume 6)

• Tác giả: Philippa M Steele
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1789258523
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oxbow Books 2022
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 343828
• Chủ đề: 1. Ancient history: to c 500 CE; 2. European history; 3. Historical & comparative linguistics

Tóm tắt

 Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes &
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  from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume presents a group of papers by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. They focus on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.