Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330 - Richard Britnell

Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330

By: Richard Britnell (Editor)

Hardcover | 13 March 1997

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Studies of the uses of literacy for the exercise of political and economic power, in Latin Christendom and the wider world.

This pioneering collection of studies is concerned with the way in which increasing literacy interacted with the desire of thirteenth-century rulers to keep fuller records of their government's activities, and the manner in whichthis literacy could be used to safeguard or increase authority. In Europe the keeping of archives became an increasingly normal part of everyday administrative routines, and much has survived, owing to the prolonged preference forparchment rather than paper; in the Eastern civilisations material is more scarce. Papers discuss pragmatic literacy and record keeping in both West and East, through the medium of both literary and official texts.

Thelate Professor RICHARD BRITNELL taught in the Department of History at the University of Durham.

Contributors: RICHARD BRITNELL, THOMAS BEHRMANN, MANUEL RIU, OLIVER GUYOTJEANNIN, G RARD SIV RY, MANFRED GROTEN, MICHAELNORTH, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, PAUL HARVEY, GEOFFREY MARTIN, GEOFFREY BARROW, ROBERT SWANSON, NICHOLAS OIKONOMIDES, ELIZABETH ZACHARIADOU, I.H. SIDDIQUI, TIMOTHY BROOK, YOSHIYASU KAWANE

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An ambitious contribution to a very important subject. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

Stimulating new perspectives... and fresh insights on a topic of central significance to an understanding of the middle ages in Europe and beyond. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHIVISTS

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