Add to ORKGBetween ca. 1500 and ca. 1800 most Western European societies moved decisively from restricted to mass literacy. This article outlines the spectrum of skills that made up early modern literacy, charts the changing social and geographical distribution of literacy in early modern Europe, offers economic, religious, political and cultural (including linguistic) explanations for change and assesses the importance of this momentous change for European social development after 1800. It deals not only with reading, writing and counting, but also with communication processes that encompassed the worlds of oral, aural and visual culture
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Ducreux Marie-Élizabeth. István György Tóth, Literacy and Written Culture in Early Modern Central Eu...
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Social theorists have long argued that literacy is one of the principal causes and hallmark features...
This article argues that basic reading skills in eighteenth-century Denmark became more widespread a...
Has writing changed history or has it merely recorded historical change? Within the field of Literac...
In this paper, I consider the interaction of societal language attitudes and children's literacy edu...
The chapter examines the invention of literacy as a category and the spread of reading and writing i...
This is a report on, the conclusions reached in monograph on Literacy in Colonial New England (1974)...
Ducreux Marie-Élizabeth. István György Tóth, Literacy and Written Culture in Early Modern Central Eu...
This article charts and tries to explain the changing use of ‘minority’ languages in Europe between ...
This article examines the social role of literacy in a period of rapid commercial development and gr...
This study analyzes the concepts of literacy that have prevailed at different periods of history. Th...
At first glance, the collapse of the Roman Empire also meant a breakdown of the unifying bureaucrati...
Critical to an understanding of Victorian literature is an awareness of the participants in literate...
The paper explores the significance of counting communication skills in one of the earliest societie...
This study involves discovering how growing literacy influenced the development of advertising in ea...
This dissertation discusses Roman imperialism and runic literacy. It employs an interdisciplinary te...
Social theorists have long argued that literacy is one of the principal causes and hallmark features...
This article argues that basic reading skills in eighteenth-century Denmark became more widespread a...
Has writing changed history or has it merely recorded historical change? Within the field of Literac...
In this paper, I consider the interaction of societal language attitudes and children's literacy edu...