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    Scripts and Texts

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    Author(s)
    Mullen, Alexandra
    Bowman, Alan
    Collection
    European Research Council (ERC); EU collection
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Manual of Roman Everyday Writing Volume 1: Scripts and Texts describes the kinds of documents that are written in Latin cursive script and tabulates the main published collections and individual items of texts in cursive script from across the Roman world, ranging in provenance from northern England to Africa, Egypt and Syria. The types of cursive script, conventionally labelled Old Roman Cursive (1st-3rd centuries) and New Roman Cursive (from the 3rd century) are illustrated, with layout of different kinds of documents, tables of letter forms and the most important abbreviations, signs and conventions. This makes important contributions to our knowledge of the origins and early history of Roman cursive as well as the long-standing debate among palaeographers about how and why the essential character of the scripts underwent obvious technical and stylistic changes in the course of the third century CE. A practice-based approach to the subject examines the evidence for the ways in which people may have learnt to read and write cursive in antiquity and the implications for the spread of literacy. For the modern reader, it provides a step-by-step guide to deciphering and interpreting Roman cursive texts, including video tutorials. Finally, it offers an exploration through text and video of the technologies of the digital age, including multispectral analysis and Reflectance Transformation Imaging, which have been pioneered at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents since the 1990s and have greatly improved the image-capturing techniques and the visibility of damaged documents written on wood, papyrus and various metals.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56666
    Keywords
    latin; cursive; literacy; Old Roman Cursive; New Roman Cursive
    ISBN
    9780853583462
    Publisher
    LatinNow ePubs
    Publication date and place
    Nottingham, 2021
    Grantor
    • H2020 European Research Council - 715626 - LatinNow Research grant informationFind all documents
    Series
    Manual of Roman Everyday Writing, 1
    Pages
    99
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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