Alex Mullen, Anna Willi

Gebundenes Buch

Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West

Beschreibung

This volume offers a detailed anatomy of the spread of Latin and local and regional language change across Britain, Gaul, the Germanies, and the Iberian Peninsula during the late Roman republic to the end of the third century.

Autor

Alex Mullen (PhD, FSA, FRHistS) is Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham. She previously held research fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge (Magdalene) and Oxford (All Souls) and was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project exploring life and languages in the Roman western provinces. In recognition of her interdisciplinary work, in 2018 she won a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Classics. Anna Willi is obtained her PhD from Zÿrich University, Switzerland. Following her postdoctoral research on Roman writing equipment, literacy, and non-monumental inscriptions as a Research Fellow on the ERC-funded LatinNow project, she was awarded a research grant from the Gerda Henkel foundation for her project Tabulae Ceratae (TabCer) on Roman stylus tablets as everyday objects. She is currently Curator of Ancient Mediterranean Life at the British Museum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 165mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9780198887515
• ISBN-10: 0198887515
• Artikelnr.: 73374346