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From memory to written record : England 1066-1307
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ISBN: 0631168575 9780631168577 Year: 1992 Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell,

Word vs image : cognitive hunger in Shakespeare's England
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ISBN: 0230006310 9780230006317 1349282189 9786613185624 023059803X 1283185628 Year: 2006 Publisher: Houndmills ; New York Palgrave Macmillan

Religion, allegory, and literacy in early modern England, 1560-1640 : the control of the world
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ISBN: 9780754651475 0754651479 Year: 2006 Publisher: Aldershot [etc.] Ashgate


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Small books and pleasant histories: popular fiction and its readership in seventeenth-century England
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ISBN: 0820305952 9780820305950 Year: 1981 Publisher: Athens, Ga University of Georgia Press

Learning and literacy in Medieval England and abroad
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ISBN: 2503510760 9782503510767 9782503539379 Year: 2003 Volume: 3 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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How did people know what they knew, and learn what they learnt? As Derek Pearsall’s introduction makes clear this is the primary focus of the collection of essays published in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the foundation of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York.The learning materials included range from grammar books to mystery plays, and from court records to monastic chronicles, as well as liturgical and devotional texts. But the essays are not only concerned with texts alone, but with the broader and often fluid social environments in which learning took place. Many of the papers therefore question the validity of some distinctions habitually used in the discussion of medieval culture, such as the opposition between orality and literacy, between Latin and the vernacular or between secular and religious.

Singing the new song : literacy and liturgy in late medieval England
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ISBN: 9780812240511 0812240510 1322512396 0812203887 Year: 2008 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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In Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word. Where previous studies have described how writing comes to supplant oral forms of communication or how it objectifies relations of power formerly transacted through ritual and ceremony, Zieman shifts the critical gaze to the ritual performance of written texts in the liturgy-effectively changing the focus from writing to reading. Beginning with a history of the elementary educational institution known to modern scholars as the "song school," Zieman shows the continued centrality of liturgical and devotional texts to the earliest stages of literacy training and spiritual formation. Originally, these schools were created to provide liturgical training for literate adult performers who had already mastered the grammatical arts. From the late thirteenth century on, however, the attention and resources of both lay and clerical patrons came to be devoted specifically to young boys, centering on their function as choristers. Because choristers needed to be trained before they received instruction in grammar, the liturgical skills of reading and singing took on a different meaning. This shift in priorities, Zieman argues, is paradigmatic of broader cultural changes, in which increased interest in liturgical performance and varying definitions attached to "reading and singing" caused these practices to take on a life of their own, unyoked from their original institutional settings of monastery and cathedral. Unmoored from the context of the choral community, reading and singing developed into discrete, portable skills that could be put to use in a number of contexts, sacred and secular, Latin and vernacular. Ultimately, they would be carried into a wider public sphere, where they would be transformed into public modes of discourse appropriated by vernacular writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland.

Literacy and popular culture
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ISBN: 0521334667 0521457718 0511560885 9780521334662 9780511560880 9780521457712 Year: 1989 Volume: 19 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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In l750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by l9l4 England, together with a handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in history achieved a nominally literate society. This book seeks to understand how and why literacy spread into every corner of English society, and what impact it had on the lives and minds of the common people.

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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Education --- Literacy --- Reading (Adult education) --- Alphabétisation --- Lecture (Education des adultes) --- History --- Histoire --- England --- Angleterre --- Popular culture --- Culture populaire --- History. --- 942.07 --- 028 --- 930.85:02 --- -Literacy --- -Popular culture --- -#SBIB:94H4 --- #SBIB:309H518 --- Reading --- Adult education --- Elementary education of adults --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Illiteracy --- General education --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1714-1837) --- Lezen. Lectuur --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- Geschiedenis van Groot-Brittannië en Ierland --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Study and teaching (Adult education) --- Study and teaching --- 930.85:02 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis-:-Bibliotheekwezen --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- 942.07 Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1714-1837) --- Alphabétisation --- #SBIB:94H4 --- Culture --- Arts and Humanities --- Literacy - England - History. --- Reading (Adult education) - England - History. --- Education - England - History. --- Popular culture - England - History.

Glamorous sorcery : magic and literacy in the High Middle Ages
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ISBN: 0816635463 0816635471 081669141X 9780816635467 9780816635474 Year: 2000 Volume: 25 Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,

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