Literacy and Power in the Ancient World by Alan K Bowman

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Literacy and Power in the Ancient World by Alan K Bowman

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Summary

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).

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Literacy and Power in the Ancient World by Alan K Bowman

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 or fundamentally repressive?

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'Bowman and Woolf's collection has many virtues – not least putting Greek and Roman experience into a wider ancient contextAll classicists must read it to broaden their range and enlarge their operating framework.' The Classical Review
'This book is highly informative and always interesting . . . ' JACT Review
Greg Woolf is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998), as well as the co-editor of Literacy and Power in the Ancient World (1994), and Rome the Cosmopolis (2003). In addition, Professor Woolf is editor of the Journal of Roman Studies and has written numerous articles on Roman history.
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ISBN 13 9780521587365
ISBN 10 0521587360
Title Literacy and Power in the Ancient World
Author Alan K Bowman
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1996-12-05
Number of pages 260
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.