Literacy and Power in the Ancient WorldAlan K. Bowman, Greg Woolf 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. |
Contents
Literacy and power in the ancient world | 1 |
The Persepolis Tablets speech seal and script | 17 |
Literacy and the citystate in archaic and classical Greece | 33 |
Literacy and language in Egypt in the Late and Persian Periods | 51 |
Literacy and power in Ptolemaic Egypt | 67 |
Power and the spread of writing in the West | 84 |
Texts scribes and power in Roman Judaea | 99 |
The Roman imperial army letters and literacy on the northern frontier | 109 |
Literacy and power in early Christianity | 126 |
Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria | 149 |
Later Roman bureaucracy going through the files | 161 |
Literacy and power in the migration period | 177 |
Texts as weapons polemic in the Byzantine dark ages | 198 |
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