By Charles Halton on Thursday, 28 September 2006 at 5:07 pm

The Digital Orient blog has some downloadable articles by Dominique Charpin that you might want to check out.  Here are a couple topics of some noteable ones that I enjoyed reading:

  • Was reading and writing only accessible to specialists?  Charpin doesn’t think so, in fact, he thinks literacy was more widespread that scholars have traditionally believed.
  • Mobility of merchants
  • Diplomatic documents
  • Many other topics worth checking out


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Made Sunday, 1 of October , 2006 at 2:46 pm

New to Me…

Two items came to my attention this week that others may want to know about. First Charles Halton of Awilum linked to The Digital Orient. He noted the articles by Dominique Charpin that can be found there. Charles is correct……

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