TY - BOOK ID - 19337244 TI - Written space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300 AU - Sears, Gareth AU - Keegan, Peter AU - Laurence, Ray PY - 2013 SN - 9781441123046 9781474217088 1474217087 1441123040 1441188762 1472555902 9781441188762 9781441161628 1441161627 9781472555908 PB - London New York Bloomsbury Academic DB - UniCat KW - Inscriptions, Latin KW - Public spaces KW - Latin inscriptions KW - Latin language KW - Latin philology KW - Public places KW - Social areas KW - Urban public spaces KW - Urban spaces KW - Cities and towns KW - History KW - Rome KW - Social life and customs. KW - Social life and customs KW - Graffito. KW - Inschrift. KW - Inscriptions, Latin. KW - Kommunikation. KW - Manners and customs. KW - Public spaces. KW - Öffentlicher Raum. KW - History. KW - Africa, Northwest. KW - Europe, Western. KW - Rome (Empire). KW - Römisches Reich. KW - Inscriptions latines KW - Espaces publics KW - Moeurs et coutumes KW - Inscriptions, Latin - Rome KW - Public spaces - Rome - History KW - Inscriptions, Latin - Europe, Western KW - Inscriptions, Latin - Africa, Northwest KW - Rome - Social life and customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19337244 AB - This volume explores the creation of 'written spaces' through the accretion of monumental inscriptions and non-official graffiti in the Latin-speaking West between c.200 BC and AD 300. The shift to an epigraphic culture demonstrates new mentalities regarding the use of language, the relationship between local elites and the population, and between local elites and the imperial power. The creation of both official and non-official inscriptions is one of the most recognisable facets of the Roman city. The chapters of this book consider why urban populations created these written spaces and how these spaces in turn affected those urban civilisations. They also examine how these inscriptions interacted to create written spaces that could inculcate a sense of 'Roman-ness' into urban populations whilst also acting as a means of differentiating communities from each other. The volume includes new approaches to the study of political entities, social institutions, graffiti and painting, and the differing trajectories of written spaces in the cities of Roman Africa, Italy, Spain and Gaul. ER -