Additional Bibliography on writing, literacy, books
First, a core set of titles for a course on these issues in antiquity
and the middle ages:
- P. Achtemeier, 'Omne verbum sonat: The New Testament and the Oral
Environment of Late Western Antiquity', Journal of Biblical Literature
109(1990), 3-27
- E. Havelock, The Literate Revolution in Greece
- E. Havelock, Preface to Plato
- R. Thomas, Oral Tradition and Written Record
- R. McKitterick, Carolingians and the Written Word
- B. Stock, Implications of Literacy
- M.T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record
- R. Wright, Late Latin and Early Romance
- J. Goody, Literacy in Traditional Societies
- W.V. Harris, Ancient Literacy
- M. McLuhan, Understanding Media
- W. Ong, Orality and Literacy
- I. Illich, ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind
- Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Loeb ed. in two vols.)
- The Rule of Saint Benedict
- G. Kennedy, Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World
- G. Kennedy, Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors
- D.F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts
Second, a longer list of materials from a wide variety of cultural
contexts, though still
heavily ancient and medieval:
- M. Ascher, Code of the quipu: a study in media, mathematics, and
culture (an
Incan substitute for a writing system)
- A.A. Barrett, 'Knowledge of the Literary Classics in Roman Britain,'
Britannia 9(1978),
307-13
- Boone and Mignolo, edd., Writing without Words (Durham NC 1994):
mesoamerican
- R. Browning, 'Literacy in the Byzantine world', in his History,
Language and Literacy
in the Byzantine World
- G.W. Clarke, 'An Illiterate Lector,' Zeitschrift für Papyrologie
und Epigraphik
57(1984), 106-22
- R.I. Curtis, 'Product Identification and Advertising on Roman
Commercial Amphorae',
Ancient Society 15-17(1984-6), 209-28
- A. Dalzell, 'C. Asinius Pollio and the Early History of the Public
Recitation at Rome,'
Hermathena 86(1955), 20-8
- R.W. Daniel, 'Liberal Education and Semiliteracy in Petronius',
Zeitschrift für
Papyrologie und Epigraphik 40(1980), 153-59
- A.C. Dionisotti, 'From Ausonius' Schooldays?', Journal of Roman
Studies 72(1982), 83-
125
- P.E. Easterling, 'Books and Readers in the Greek World: 2, The
Hellenistic and Imperial
Periods,' Cambridge History of Classical Literature (Cambridge 1985) 1.16-41
- S. Flory, 'Who Read Herodotus' Histories?' American Journal of
Philology 101(1980),
12-28
- J.L. Franklin, Pompeii: The Electoral Programmata, Campaigns and
Politics, A.D. 71-79
- B. Frier, Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum: The Origins of the
Annalistic Tradition
- T. Honoré, 'The Making of the Theodosian Code,' Zeitschrift d.
Savigny-Stiftung
103(1986), 133-222
- R.A. Kaster, 'Notes on ''Primary'' and ''Secondary'' Schools in Late
Antiquity',
Transactions of the American Philological Association 113(1983), 323-46
- R.A. Kaster, Guardians of Language (about Roman grammarians)
- B.M.W. Knox, 'Silent Reading in Antiquity,' Greek, Roman and
Byzantine Studies
9(1968) 421-35
- R. MacMullen, 'Provincial Languages in the Roman Empire', American
Journal of
Philology 87(1966), 1-14
- A.F. Norman, 'The Book Trade in Fourth-Century Antioch', Journal of
Hellenic Studies
80(1960), 122-126.
- R.M. Ogilvie, The Library of Lactantius
- R.A. Pack, The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt
- M.B. Parkes, Pause and Effect (history of punctuation)
- P. Petitmengin and B. Flusin, 'Le livre antique et la dictée.
Nouvelles
recherches', in Mémorial André-Jean Festugière
(Geneva 1984), 247-62
- E.C. Polomé, 'The Linguistic Situation in the Western
Provinces of the Roman
Empire,' Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt 2.29.2(1983), 509-53
- R. Reed, Ancient Skins, Parchments and Leathers
- A. Scobie, 'Storytellers, Storytelling and the Novel in Graeco-Roman
Antiquity,'
Rheinisches Museum 122(1979), 229-59
- T.C. Skeat, 'The Use of Dictation in Ancient Book Production',
Proceedings of the British
Academy 42(1956), 179-208
- T.C. Skeat, 'Early Christian Book-Production: Papyri and
Manuscripts,' Cambridge
History of the Bible 2.54-79
- T.C. Skeat, 'The Length of the Standard Papyrus Roll and the
Cost-Advantage of the
Codex,' Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 45(1982), 169-75
- C.C. Smith, 'Vulgar Latin in Roman Britain: Epigraphic and Other
Evidence,' Aufstieg
und Niedergang der Römischen Welt 2.29.2 (1983), 893-948
- H.H. Tanzer, The Common People of Pompeii: A Study of the Graffiti
- E.G. Turner, Athenian Books in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.
- E.G. Turner, 'Oxyrhynchus and Rome', Harvard Studies in Classical
Philology 79(1975)
1-24
- E.G. Turner, The Typology of the Early Codex
- E.O. Wingo, Latin Punctuation in the Classical Age