Benjamin Hartmann: The Scribes of Rome

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Beschreibung

In a society in which only a fraction of the population was literate and numerate, being one of the few specialists in reading, writing and reckoning meant the possession of an invaluable asset. The fact that the Roman state heavily relied on these professional scribes in financial and legal administration led to their holding a unique position and status. By gathering and analysing the available source material on the Roman scribae, Benjamin Hartmann traces the history of Rome's public scribes from the early Republic to the Later Roman Empire. He tells the story of men of low social origin, who, by means of their specialised knowledge, found themselves at the heart of the Roman polity, in close proximity to the powerful and responsible for the written arcana of the state - a story of knowledge and power, corruption and contested social mobility.

Über den Autor

Benjamin Hartmann is a former Research and Teaching Assistant in Ancient History at the University of Zurich and currently works as an independent researcher. His research focuses on the role of literacy in the ancient world, ancient cultural and social history and Latin epigraphy. He has mainly published on writing on everyday objects and small finds from the Roman world.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Imagining the Roman scriba; 2. The human archive; 3. The attendant; 4. The pröteer; 5. The parvenu; 6. The Roman scriba reimagined; Appendix The Roman scribae; Bibliography; General index; Index locorum.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781108713740
ISBN-10:	1108713742
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hartmann, Benjamin
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	226 x 149 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Benjamin Hartmann
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.09.2021
Gewicht:	0,354 kg