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Covering the long history of literacy in the Western World, a wide variety of experts comments on the role of books and reading in shaping culture, politics, public opinion, and mores from antiquity to the present.
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9781558492134 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Covering the long history of literacy in the Western World, a wide variety of experts comments on the role of books and reading in shaping culture, politics, public opinion, and mores from antiquity to the present.
9780745619361 | Polity Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $79.95 | also contains A History of Reading in the West
This pioneering book studies the function and status of the written word in Carolingian society in France and Germany in the eighth and ninth centuries. It demonstrates that literacy was by no means confined to a clerical élite, but was dispersed in lay society and used for government and administration, as well as for ordinary legal transactions among the peoples of the Frankish kingdom. While employing a huge range of primary material, the author does not confine herself to a functional analysis of the written word in Carolingian northern Europe but goes on to assess the consequences and implications of literacy for the Franks themselves and for the subsequent development of European society after 1000. (view table of contents)
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9780521305396 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $72.99 | About this edition: This pioneering book studies the function and status of the written word in Carolingian society in France and Germany in the eighth and ninth centuries.
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9780521315654 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $44.99
Product Description: This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society...read more
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9780691102276 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 1987), cover price $91.00 | About this edition: This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.
Product Description: This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society...read more
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9780691053684 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 1983, cover price $68.50 | About this edition: This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.
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