This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing

How many people could read and write in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans? No one has previously tried to give a systematic answer to this question. Mo

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

This book examines how developments in the technology of writing and literacy stimulated changes in Western civilization from its beginnings to the present. The