CENTRALITY AND MARGINALITY OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS Near Fine

Very faint creasing to upper corners of wraps else Fine. ; Contents: Writing the History of Ancient East Asia from Non-Literary Evidence (Ki-Tong Lee) ; Bureaucracy and Documentation in The Roman Empire (Alan K. Bowman) ; World of Ancient Japanese Document (Eiichi Ishigami) ; Culture and Ideas Carried by Chinese Characters in Ancient East Asia: the Japanese Viewpoint (Tokio Shinkawa) ; Public and Private Discourse on Stone in the Inscriptions of the Greek East (Charles Crowther) ; Greeks and thie Names in the Ancient World: Innovation and Tradition (Elaine Matthews) ; Recently Unearthed Laws (China) (Itaru tomiya) ; Literacy and Local Administration in Ancient Japan (Minami Hirakawa) ; Provincial Administration in the Kingdom of Silla in the Sixth Century: Wooden Tablets from the Fort.(Sung-Si Lee) ; Some Remarks on Cadastral Inscriptions in the Later Roman Empire; Significance of Labour Force Assessment in the Civic Society (Satoshi Urano) ; Origins of Japanese Wooden Tablets (Yasuhiro Terasaki) ; Words from the Western Frontier. Roman Writing-Tablets from Wales and Carlisle (Roger S. O. Tomlin). ; 270 pages