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dc.contributor.authorMullen, Alexandra
dc.contributor.authorBowman, Alan
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-07T11:58:42Z
dc.date.available2022-06-07T11:58:42Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56666
dc.description.abstractManual 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesManual of Roman Everyday Writingen_US
dc.subject.otherlatin; cursive; literacy; Old Roman Cursive; New Roman Cursiveen_US
dc.titleScripts and Textsen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedByLatinNow ePubsen_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079en_US
oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)en_US
oapen.series.number1en_US
oapen.pages99en_US
oapen.place.publicationNottinghamen_US
oapen.grant.number715626
oapen.grant.projectLatinNow


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