Literacy and Power in the Ancient World
This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society. Was writing a revolutionary innovation, prompting or participating in social change, or a fundamentally repressive and disciplinary technology? The book consists of a series of studies ranging over the whole of the Mediterranean world and much of northern Europe during a period of more than a millennium (c. 600 BC AD 800). The areas examined include Pharaonic and Hellenistic Egypt, Persia and the Near East, Judaea, classical Greece, and the Roman and the Byzantine empires.…
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Weitere Autoren: Woolf, Greg (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-58736-5
- EAN: 9780521587365
- Produktnummer: 1514767
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.4 cm 401 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 401
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