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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hella Eckardt (University of Reading)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 18.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 26.00cm Weight: 0.800kg ISBN: 9781108418058ISBN 10: 1108418058 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 26 October 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPart 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationHella 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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