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oapen-20.500.12657-589522023-02-01T09:02:48Z Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean Steele, Philippa M. History Ancient Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics Historical & Comparative History Europe bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLA Ancient history: to c 500 CE bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFF Historical & comparative linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes – from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume presents a group of papers by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. They focus on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it. 2022-10-21T05:31:23Z 2022-10-21T05:31:23Z 2022 book 9781789258523 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58952 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Oxbow Books Oxbow Books dc03c27f-26a0-45f6-87b5-57bf794f24c1 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781789258523 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Oxbow Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes – from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume presents a group of papers by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. They focus on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.
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