The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and SocietyIndiana University Press, 22 mars 1987 - 493 pages "This book will be a monumental contribution to the topic and a staple of scholarship for decades." —Michael B. Katz |
Table des matières
Literacys Legacies 25 | 2 |
The Origins of Western Literacy | 15 |
Before the Printing Press The Middle Ages | 33 |
From the TenthEleventh | 53 |
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries | 75 |
Print Protest and the People | 108 |
16601780 | 173 |
Toward the Present and the Future | 259 |
Today and Tomorrow Revisioning Literacy | 373 |
NOTES | 394 |
INDEX | 401 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture ... Harvey J. Graff Affichage d'extraits - 1987 |
The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture ... Harvey J. Graff Affichage d'extraits - 1987 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
American Ancien Regime artisans Bolgar Cambridge University Press chap Charles Tilly Christian church cited cities classical clerical communication context Counter Reformation culture decline E. P. Thompson early economic eighteenth century elementary England English Enlightenment example expanded families fifteenth century France Francois Furet French Furet and Ozouf Graff history of literacy humanists idem illiteracy illiterate impact important increased industrial institutions instruction Italy Jack Goody Journal labor language Latin learning levels of literacy literacy and schooling literacy levels Literacy Myth literacy rates literacy's literate literature Lockridge Lollardy London mass medieval modern moral nineteenth century occupational opportunities oral oral culture parish passim peasants percent period persons political population Printing Press progress rates of literacy reading and writing Reformation regional religion religious Renaissance Revolution role rural skills social society street literature studies Sweden teachers towns traditional urban vernacular women York