Uniformity and Regionalism in Latin Writing Culture of the First Millennium C.E.
edited by Rodney Ast, Tino Licht and Julia Lougovaya
Over the course of thirteen chapters authored by specialists of Roman history, Classics, Latin linguistics, papyrology, epigraphy and Medieval studies, this volume showcases samples of Latin writing in Greco-Roman antiquity and the early Middle Ages from a range of places across and on the margins of the Mediterranean world (Britain, Italy, North Africa, Visigothic Spain, among others).
Over the course of thirteen chapters authored by specialists of Roman history, Classics, Latin linguistics, papyrology, epigraphy and Medieval studies, this volume showcases samples of Latin writing in Greco-Roman antiquity and the early Middle Ages from a range of places across and on the margins of the Mediterranean world (Britain, Italy, North Africa, Visigothic Spain, among others). Central to the book is the basic question how uniform practices and regional expression manifest themselves in materials, scripts, layout and even language. In addition to parchment manuscripts and stone inscriptions, the contributions deal with Latin writing on papyrus, wood, ceramic sherds (called “ostraca”), metal and slate. They consider how regional factors might have affected preferences for some materials; how universal documentary practice adjusted to local habits; how the acquisition of Latin as a foreign language could be aided by and reflected in the layout and design of a text; how the origin of documents might be observed in script; and how space could enshrine and enhance text.
- Edited by Rodney Ast
- Edited by Tino Licht
- Edited by Julia Lougovaya
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Das Tagliche Kultbildritual im Neuen Reich und der Dritten Zwischenzeit
Volume 23
Alexandrinische Mosaikglaseinlagen
Die Typologie, Systematik und Herstellung von Gesichterdarstellungen in der ptolemaischen Glaskunst
Volume 22
Scrivere documenti nell’esercito romano
L'evidenza dei papiri latini d'Egitto tra I e III d.C
Volume 139
Hercules in der Spatantike
Die Rolle des Heros im Spannungsfeld von Heidentum und Christentum
Volume 89
Volker Losemann – Antike und Nationalsozialismus
Gesammelte Schriften zur Wissenschafts- und Rezeptionsgeschichte II
Volume 160
Auf segelbeflugelten Schiffen das Meer befahren
Das Erlebnis der Schiffsreise im spaten Hellenismus und in der Romischen Kaiserzeit. In Zusammenarbeit mit Jens Borstinghaus
Volume 119
Der Althistoriker Franz Hampl zwischen Nationalsozialismus und Demokratie
Kontinuitat und Wandel im Fach Alte Geschichte
Historiographie, Ethnographie, Utopie
Gesammelte Schriften, Teil 4. Studien zur griechischen Historiographie
Volume 18.4
Papyrus Ebers und die antike Heilkunde
Akten der Tagung vom 15.-16.3.2002 in der Albertina der Universitat Leipzig
Volume 7
Discere et militare
Studien zu Antike, Militar und Universitat. Festschrift fur Burkhard Meissner zum 60. Geburtstag
Volume 172
Romische Graber augusteischer und tiberischer Zeit im Westen des Imperiums
Akten der Tagung vom 11. bis 14. November 2010 in Trier
Volume 63
Antike Lebenswelten: Konstanz – Wandel – Wirkungskraft
Festschrift fur Ingomar Weiler zum 70. Geburtstag
Volume 25
Amministrare e comunicare nell’Egitto tolemaico
La funzione delle copie (antigrapha) nella documentazione papirologica
Volume 149
Livius, Dionysios, Augustus, Machiavelli
Ein diskursanalytischer Vergleich der romischen Fruhgeschichte bei Livius und Dionysios von Halikarnassos und die Rezeption ihrer livianischen Darstellung im Werk des Niccolo Machiavelli
Volume 88
Interkulturalitat in der Alten Welt
Vorderasien, Hellas, Agypten und die vielfaltigen Ebenen des Kontakts
Volume 34
Die griechische Archaik
Konstruktion einer Chronologie im Wechselspiel schriftlicher und archaologischer Quellen
Volume 156
Studien zur lex rivi Hiberiensis
Zur Rechtsdurchsetzung innerhalb einer Bewasserungsgemeinschaft im 2. Jh. n. Chr.
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