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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keegan, Peter (Lecturer in Roman history), editor.

Laurence, Ray, 1963- editor.

Sears, Gareth, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions, Latin--Rome.

Inscriptions, Latin.

Public spaces--Rome--History.

Public spaces.

Inscriptions, Latin--Europe, Western.

Inscriptions, Latin--Africa, Northwest.

Rome--Social life and customs.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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.

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

1. 'Written Space' - Laurence and Sears

2. Writing In Roman Public Space - Corbier

3. Writing In Public Space: The Meaning of Graffiti - Laurence and Senna-Garrafoni

4. The Political Graffiti of the Late Roman Republic - Hillard

5. Slaves and Children in a Roman Villa: Writing and Space in the Villa di San Marco at Stabiae - Laurence, Baldwin and Moulden

6. Convergence and Commentary: Writing at the Locus Celeberrimus -Newsome

7. Reconstructing the Epigraphic Culture of Funerary Space in the Roman City - Keegan

8. Looking at Inscriptions in Roman Baths - Cooley

9. Text, Space, and Movement: Discovering the Platea in Epigraphy - Trifilo

10. Inscribed in the City: How Did Women Enter Written Space? - Hemelrijk

11. Calendars: Time in Written Spaces - Hannah

12. A New Era? The Function of Severan Inscriptions in Africa - Sears

13. The City as Preferred Epigraphic Space: The Case of Aquitania - Esmonde-Cleary

14. Writing Politics in the Western Mediterranean - Revell

15. Afterword - Keegan

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references

ISBN:

9781441161628

1441161627

9781472555908

1472555902

9781441188762

1441188762

OCLC:

1138527040