Roman Record Keeping & Communications
Author:   Paul Chrystal
Publisher:   Fonthill Media Ltd
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9781781556580


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   23 November 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Paul Chrystal
Publisher:   Fonthill Media Ltd
Imprint:   Fonthill Media Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9781781556580


ISBN 10:   178155658
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   23 November 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part One: Before Rome; 1 How to Record a Record: Writing and Writing Materials; 2 Record Keeping before Rome: the Ancient Near East; 3 Ancient Egypt; 4 Ancient Greece; Part Two: Rome; 5 The Roman Calendar and Roman Time; 6 Archives & Libraries in the Roman World; 7 Tabulae and Laterculi; 8 Epigraphy; 9 Fasti; 10 Publishing; 11 Graffiti & Curse Tablets; 12 The Theodosian Code & Justinian's Codification; Appendix I Damnatio memoriae; Appendix II The Roman Government communication network; Bibliography; Index.

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Chrystal's primary purpose is to provide entertaining facts to the general public, and in this he succeeds. -- Choice


Chrystal's primary purpose is to provide entertaining facts to the general public, and in this he succeeds. --Choice


"Chrystal's primary purpose is to provide entertaining facts to the general public, and in this he succeeds. -- ""Choice"""


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Paul Chrystal was educated at the Universities of Hull and Southampton where he took degrees in Classics. For the past thirty-five years he has worked in medical publishing, much of the time as an international sales director. He now combines this with being history advisor to various local visitor attractions in York , writing features for national newspapers, and broadcasting on BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Tees, on the Radio 4 PM programme and on the BBC World Service. He is a contributor to a number of history magazines and the author of seventy books.

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