Writing and orthography in non-literary texts from Roman Britain : a sociolinguistic approach / Francesca Cotugno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cotugno, Francesca, author.

Series:

LautSchriftSprache ScriptandSound ; 4.

LautSchriftSprache ScriptandSound ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Great Britain--History.

Latin language.

Paleography, Latin--Great Britain--History.

Paleography, Latin.

Latin language--Orthography and spelling.

Great Britain--History--Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

171 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, [2022]

Summary:

"The Roman control of Britannia lasted from 43 to about 410 CE, a tumultuous occupation indeed, often characterised by a difficult relationship between the local population and the Romans. From these centuries of uproar and coexistence, we can collect the most emblematic case studies of phonological variation in non-literary texts written on tablets, mainly the writing tablets from Londinium-Bloomberg, Carlisle and Vindolanda and the curse tablets scattered in different sites from Britain. These documents show how these realities are fragmented in micro-entities, each of them carrying different linguistic, cultural, and historical backgrounds that we can summarize as micro-histories of Latinization. The thorough analysis of this significant assortment of non-literary documents, which includes stylus tablets, ink tablets and lead tablets, written in different scripts such as Old and New Roman Cursive and Captial writings, offers a first comprehensive account of the language variation available in these texts according to linguistic and palaeographical perspective"--Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783752006810

3752006811

OCLC:

1371245763