The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the 11th and 12th Centuries

by Brian Stock

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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. Medieval and early modern literacy, Brian Stock argues, did not simply supersede oral discourse but created a new type of interdependence between the oral...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691102279

ISBN13:9780691102276

Release Date:January 1987

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:616 Pages

Weight:0.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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History Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Reference

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