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Inscripta: an e-learning seminar on Romano-British inscriptions.

Description

Much of our evidence for Roman Britain, particularly the military and religious lives of its inhabitants, is based on inscriptions. However, few universities can teach the topic effectively because they do not hold material with the range of that held at Newcastle. Colleagues who teach archaeology and/or ancient history at the universities of Kent, Durham, Leicester, St Andrews, Glasgow, Cardiff, Reading and even Amsterdam have remarked how difficult it is to find suitable examples on the web for their students to work on, yet until students overcome their fear of epigraphy, a thorough understanding of the Roman world is denied them.

The project will provide an interactive on-line language learning and e-learning resource, suitable for small group teaching and independent learning, which will teach students to transcribe, transliterate and translate Romano-British inscriptions, using examples from the collection held in the Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne. 

Lead;

Lindsay Allason-Jones, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Artefact Studies, Newcastle University

Collaborators;

Glyn Goodrick, Senior Research Associate, CIAS, School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University
 
Federico Santangelo, Lecturer, School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University
 
Andrew Parkin, Keeper of Archaeology, Great North Museum, Tyne and Wear Archives and  Museums
 
Guy Schofield, Research Associate, Culture Lab, Newcastle University

Contact(s)

Lindsay Allason-Jones (L.Allason-Jones@ncl.ac.uk)

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