Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE : Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean - Jeremiah Coogan

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Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE

By: Jeremiah Coogan (Editor), Candida R. Moss (Editor), Joseph A. Howley (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 December 2025

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This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate the intersections between writing and enslavement around the Roman Mediterranean. Drawing upon methods developed in scholarship on book history and Atlantic slavery, the authors demonstrate the myriad ways in which the material and intellectual contributions of enslaved literary workers were vital to the composition, editing, copying, circulation, reading, and preservation of Roman texts. This thematically organized volume exposes the ways that power dynamics denigrate and erase enslaved contributors, as well as how language barriers, gender difference, and disability created dependence on enslaved workers. The central role of enslaved workers in practical work like bookkeeping, education, and divination is explored, in addition to the unseen labor of enslaved collators, note-keepers, editors, and curators. Enslaved workers were a constitutive part of the Roman knowledge economy; their roles in allowing others to read and write, in producing ancient literature, and in staffing the bureaucratic structures of the Roman empire were profound. Roman literature, technology, and knowledge depended on the labor and expertise of enslaved literate workers, and these chapters argue that they influenced just about every aspect of Roman life.

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"What Drs Coogan, Moss, and Howley have put together in this volume is truly exceptional. Writing, Enslavement, and Power was a pleasure to read. As an edited volume it was brilliantly conceived and brilliantly executed (which is a testament to the editors, to the contributors, and to everyone else involved in its production). It is sure to be a work that continues to prompt scholarly discussions and breakthroughs in the study of ancient enslavement, of ancient book work and book production, and (I hope) more broadly in the study of the New Testament, of Early Christianity, and beyond." -- Jonathan J. Hatter, Society of Biblical Literature's

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