TY - CHAP A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo A1 - García Morcillo, Marta T1 - Rhetorik antiker und mittelalterlicher Werbung T2 - Handbuch Werberhetorik N2 - Scholarship on the history of advertising has dedicated only a limited atten-tion to all centuries preceding 1700, even though sources and data for a history of an-cient and medieval advertising are consistent. Since the birth of writing, in the Medi-terranean basin as well as in Asia, different forms of branding emerge. Their originalfunction, showing the origin of a product, was quickly subject to a process of differen-tiation. Ancient sources also show an embeddedness of oral and written advertising–advertising became such a crucial component of daily life that it also became a topicof public discourse and poetry. In Roman times, advertising also became an object ofjuridical regulations–while a further process of differentiation took place in theMiddle Ages. The invention of print, finally, allowed a quicker reproduction and dis-tribution of posters, flyers etc.–in forms which had already been practiced for thou-sands of years in other parts of the world, particularly China. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-11-031810-4 SN - 978-3-11-031821-0 SN - 978-3-11-039359-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110318210-010 SP - 191 EP - 214 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER -