Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 Bce-300 Ce (Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0197769969 ISBN 13: 9780197769966

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate the intersections between writing and enslavement around the Roman Mediterranean. Drawing upon methods developed in scholarship on book history and Atlantic slavery, the authors demonstrate the myriad ways in which the material and intellectual contributions of enslaved literary workers were vital to the composition, editing, copying, circulation, reading, and preservation of Roman texts.

This thematically organized volume exposes the ways that power dynamics denigrate and erase enslaved contributors, as well as how language barriers, gender difference, and disability created dependence on enslaved workers. The central role of enslaved workers in practical work like bookkeeping, education, and divination is explored, in addition to the unseen labor of enslaved collators, note-keepers, editors, and curators. Enslaved workers were a constitutive part of the Roman knowledge economy; their roles in allowing others to read and write, in producing ancient literature, and in staffing the bureaucratic structures of the Roman empire were profound. Roman literature, technology, and knowledge depended on the labor and expertise of enslaved literate workers, and these chapters argue that they influenced just about every aspect of Roman life.

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Jeremiah Coogan is Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University.

Candida R. Moss is Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham.

Joseph A. Howley is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0197769969
• ISBN 13: 9780197769966
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Coogan Jeremiah, Moss Candida R., Howley Joseph A.
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