Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean : Practices and Adaptations

Philip J Boyes

ISBN 10: 1789258502 / ISBN 13: 9781789258509

Edité par Oxbow Books Sep 2022, 2022

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Neuware - Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes - from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume brings together contributions by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. Their focus is on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.

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• Titre: Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean : Practices and Adaptations
• Éditeur: Oxbow Books Sep 2022
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1789258502
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781789258509
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 244 L x 169 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 244 millimètres de largeur par 169 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 848 grammes

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Synopsis

Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes - from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas.

This volume brings together contributions by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. Their focus is on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.

À propos des auteurs

Philippa M. Steele is the Director of the Crews Project, a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow of Magdalene College. Having previously been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Evans Pritchard Lectureship at All Souls College, Oxford, She has published widely on ancient languages and writing systems with a particular focus on Cyprus and the Aegean.

Philip J. Boyes is a research associate at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, working on the social context of writing at Ugarit as part of The Crews Project. He has previously worked on the archaeology of the east Mediterranean and Levant in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages.