The Implications of Literacy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 1, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9780691102276
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of ideas, intellectual history; Written communication; Literacy; History Of Civilization And Culture (General); Sociolinguistics; History - General History; Literary Criticism; Europe; General; Medieval; Comparative Literature; History / Medieval; Language Arts & Disciplines-Literacy; Language and languages; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism-General; Religion; History; Learning and scholarship; Medieval, 500-1500
First sentence: The study of medieval literacy's implications presupposes an understanding of the broader transition to a type of society in which oral discourse exists largely within a framework of conventions determined by texts.