Literacy in early modern Europe : culture and education, 1500-1800
R. A. Houston (Author)
The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples for all over the continent; and concentrates on the experience of ordinary men and women, rather than just privileged and exceptional elites
eBook, English, 2013
Second edition View all formats and editions
Routledge, Oxfordshire, England, 2013
History
1 online resource (306 pages)
9781315839233, 9781317879268, 9781317879251, 1315839237, 1317879260, 1317879252
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1. Introduction
2. The world of the school
3. Ways of teaching
4. Higher education
5. Ways of learning
6. Sources and measures of literacy
7. Profiles of literacy
8. Books and readers
9. Language, orality and the uses of literacy
10. Conclusion
English