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Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean
Philippa M. Steele
2022
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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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Keywords
- Ancient
- Ancient history: to c 500 CE
- Europe
- European History
- Historical & Comparative
- Historical & comparative linguistics
- History
- History: earliest times to present day
- Humanities
- Language
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Linguistics
- Regional & national history
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