{"product_id":"literacy-and-power-in-the-ancient-world-paperback-9780521587365","title":"Literacy and Power in the Ancient World (Paperback) 9780521587365","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiteracy and Power in the Ancient World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlan K. Bowman (Edited by), Greg Woolf (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521587365, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 5 December 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages, 4 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.3 x 1.3 cm, 0.37 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This book is highly informative and always interesting . . . ' JACT Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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. Each of the contributors investigates, in his or her particular area of expertise, the changing roles of writing in history, in particular the extent to which writing played an active role in historical change in antiquity.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Literacy and power in the ancient world Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Persepolis Tablets: speech, seal and script D. M. Lewis\u003cbr\u003e 3. Literacy and the city-state in archaic and classical Greece Rosalind Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 4. Literacy and language in Egypt in the Late and Persian Periods John Ray\u003cbr\u003e 5. Literacy and power in Ptolemaic Egypt Dorothy J. Thompson\u003cbr\u003e 6. Power and the spread of writing in the West Greg Woolf\u003cbr\u003e 7. Texts, scribes and power in Roman Judaea M. D. Goodman\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Roman imperial army: letters and literacy on the northern frontier Alan K. Bowman\u003cbr\u003e 9. Literacy and power in early Christianity Robin Lane Fox\u003cbr\u003e 10. Greek and Syriac in Late Antique Syria S. P. Brock\u003cbr\u003e 11. Later Roman bureaucracy: going through the files C. M. Kelly\u003cbr\u003e 12. Literacy and power in the migration period Peter Heather\u003cbr\u003e 13. Texts as weapons: polemic in the Byzantine dark ages Averil Cameron.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45908961198360,"sku":"9780521587365","price":38.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521587365i_653cee84-31c0-4b46-b45f-d49226a28a15.jpg?v=1691370082","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/literacy-and-power-in-the-ancient-world-paperback-9780521587365","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}