The book offers a new, material angle on literacy in the Roman world by examining writing equipment, in particular inkwells. It explores how writing equipment shaped practices such as posture and handwriting and careful analysis of the burial data shows considerable numbers of women and children buried with writing equipment.
The book offers a new, material angle on literacy in the Roman world by examining writing equipment, in particular inkwells. It explores how writing equipment shaped practices such as posture and handwriting and careful analysis of the burial data shows considerable numbers of women and children buried with writing equipment.
Hella Eckardt teaches provincial Roman archaeology and material culture studies at the University of Reading. Her research focuses on theoretical approaches to the material culture of the north-western provinces and on questions of mobility and migration. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the use of Roman objects and the expression of social and cultural identities, and has published on lighting equipment in Illuminating Roman Britain (2002), objects associated with grooming and personal adornment in Styling the Body in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain: A Contextual Approach to Toilet Instruments (2008) and material culture from Britain generally in her book, Objects and Identity: Roman Britain and the North-Western Provinces (2015).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Understanding Literacies, Material Culture and Practice in the Roman World: 1. Introduction: literacies, power and identities 2. The practicalities of literacy: writing implements in the Roman world 3. Literacy as technology and practice Part II. A Case Study: 4. Materials and production 5. Metal inkwells in the Roman Empire 6. A practice turn: thinking about inkwell use 7. The spatial and social distribution of inkwells Part III. Writing Equipment in Funerary Contexts and the Expression of Identities: 8. Literacy as performance: self-presentation of the educated elite? 9. Literacy and the life course: gender 10. Literacy and the life course: age 11. Literacy, the body and elite identities: writing and status 12. Conclusion: writing Empire through material culture.
Part I. Understanding Literacies, Material Culture and Practice in the Roman World: 1. Introduction: literacies, power and identities 2. The practicalities of literacy: writing implements in the Roman world 3. Literacy as technology and practice Part II. A Case Study: 4. Materials and production 5. Metal inkwells in the Roman Empire 6. A practice turn: thinking about inkwell use 7. The spatial and social distribution of inkwells Part III. Writing Equipment in Funerary Contexts and the Expression of Identities: 8. Literacy as performance: self-presentation of the educated elite? 9. Literacy and the life course: gender 10. Literacy and the life course: age 11. Literacy, the body and elite identities: writing and status 12. Conclusion: writing Empire through material culture.
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