Written Space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300

Gareth Sears is lecturer in Roman History at the University of Birmingham, UK.Peter Keegan is a Senior Lecturer in Roman History at Macquarie University, Australia.Ray Laurence is Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Kent, UK.

The greatest success of this volume is its attempt to force the reader to think of writing as a concept in toto ... Whilst each individual chapter has a clear merit for the study of that particular place or type of writing, it is the work as a whole that should be viewed as an important contribution to furthering the scholarly discourse on the significance and prevalence of writing in Rome and the West. -- Virginia L. Campbell, University of Oxford Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• 1. 'Written Space' - Laurence and Sears 2. Writing In Roman Public Space - Corbier 3. Writing In Public Space: The Meaning of Graffiti - Laurence and Senna-Garrafoni 4. The Political Graffiti of the Late Roman Republic - Hillard 5. Slaves and Children in a Roman Villa: Writing and Space in the Villa di San Marco at Stabiae - Laurence, Baldwin and Moulden 6. Convergence and Commentary: Writing at the Locus Celeberrimus -Newsome 7. Reconstructing the Epigraphic Culture of Funerary Space in the Roman City - Keegan 8. Looking at Inscriptions in Roman Baths - Cooley 9. Text, Space, and Movement: Discovering the Platea in Epigraphy - Trifilo 10. Inscribed in the City: How Did Women Enter Written Space? - Hemelrijk 11. Calendars: Time in Written Spaces - Hannah 12. A New Era? The Function of Severan Inscriptions in Africa - Sears 13. The City as Preferred Epigraphic Space: The Case of Aquitania - Esmonde-Cleary 14. Writing Politics in the Western Mediterranean - Revell 15. Afterword - Keegan.