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Uses of the written word in medieval towns
- Title
- Uses of the written word in medieval towns / edited by Marco Mostert and Anna Adamska.
- Publication
- Turnhout : Brepols, [2014]
- ©2014
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | P211.3.E85 U84 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xx, 453 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In medieval towns, examples of personal writing appear more prevalent than in non-urban spaces. Certain urban milieus participating in written culture, however, have been the focus of more scholarship than others. Considering the variety among town dwellers, we may assume that literacy skills differed from one social group to another. This raises several questions: Did attitudes towards the written word result from an experience of the urban educational system? On which levels, and in which registers, did different groups of people have access to writing? The need and the usefulness of written texts may not have been the same for communities and for individuals. In this volume we will concentrate on the town dwellers' personal documents. These documents include practical uses of writing by individuals for their own professional and religious ends, including testaments and correspondence. Besides written records belonging to the domain of 'pragmatic literacy', other kinds of texts were also produced in town. Was there any connection between practical literacy, literary (and historical) creativity and book production?
- Series Statement
- Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 28
- Uniform Title
- Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 28.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "Medieval urban literacy II"
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available in an electronic version.
- Contents
- Alphabets and languages : multi-ethnic and multilingual urban literacies -- Making books and telling stories : book production and urban historiography -- Individuals resorting to writing : memoria and business -- Reading, seeing, hearing : the place of writing in the system of urban communication.
- ISBN
- 9782503549606
- 2503549608
- 9782503550084 (canceled/invalid)
- 2503550088 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- ocn859883433
- 859883433
- SCSB-1780182
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library