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Title Written space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300 / [edited by] Gareth Sears, Peter Keegan and Ray Laurence.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Written space / Ray Laurence and Gareth Sears -- Writing in Roman public space / Mireille Corbier -- Reading epigraphic culture, writing funerary space in the Roman city / Peter Keegan -- Movement, rhythms, and the (re)production of written space / David Newsome -- Time in written spaces / Robert Hannah -- Graffiti's engagement. the political graffiti of the late roman republic / Tom Hillard -- Writing in public space from child to adult : the meaning of graffiti / Renata Senna Garraffoni and Ray Laurence -- Inscribed in the city: how did women enter "written space"? / Emily Hemelrijk -- Slaves and children in a Roman villa: writing and space in the villa San Marco at Stabiae / Eamonn Baldwin, Helen Moulden and Ray Laurence -- Text, space, and the urban community: a study of the platea as written space / Francesco Trifilò -- Writing up the baths : reading monumental inscriptions in Roman baths / Alison Cooley -- A new era? Severan inscriptions in Africa / Gareth Sears -- The city as preferred written space: the case of Aquitania / Simon Esmonde Cleary -- The written city : political inscriptions from Roman Baetica / Louise Revell -- Afterword / Peter Keegan.
Summary "This volume explores the creation of 'written spaces' through the accretion of monumental inscriptions and non-official graffiti in the Latin-speaking West between c.200 BC and AD 300. The shift to an epigraphic culture demonstrates new mentalities regarding the use of language, the relationship between local elites and the population, and between local elites and the imperial power. The creation of both official and non-official inscriptions is one of the most recognisable facets of the Roman city. The chapters of this book consider why urban populations created these written spaces and how these spaces in turn affected those urban civilisations. They also examine how these inscriptions interacted to create written spaces that could inculcate a sense of 'Roman-ness' into urban populations whilst also acting as a means of differentiating communities from each other. The volume includes new approaches to the study of political entities, social institutions, graffiti and painting, and the differing trajectories of written spaces in the cities of Roman Africa, Italy, Spain and Gaul"--Provided by publisher
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Subject Inscriptions, Latin -- Rome.
Public spaces -- Rome -- History.
Rome -- Social life and customs.
Rome (Empire)
Manners and customs.
Inscriptions, Latin -- Europe, Western.
Inscriptions, Latin.
Western Europe.
Inscriptions, Latin -- Africa, Northwest.
Northwest Africa.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
Classical history -- classical civilisation.
Public spaces.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Sears, Gareth, 1977-
Keegan, Peter (Lecturer in Roman history)
Laurence, Ray, 1963-
Other Form: Print version: Written space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 9781441123046 (DLC) 2013002703 (OCoLC)827528427
ISBN 9781441188762 (electronic book)
1441188762 (electronic book)
9781441161628 (electronic book)
1441161627 (electronic book)
9781472555908 (online)
1472555902
9781441123046 (hardback)
1441123040 (hardback)
Standard No. 10.5040/9781472555908