The implications of literacy : written language and models of interpretation in the eleventh and twelfth centuries /

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.Med...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stock, Brian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1983.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Subjects:
500-1500
Written communication > Europe > History.
Learning and scholarship > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Civilization > history
Communication écrite > Europe > Histoire.
Civilisation médiévale.
Savoir et érudition > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
Civilización medieval
Civilization, Medieval
Learning and scholarship > Medieval
Written communication
Alfabetisme.
Europe
Berengar of Tours.
Boethius.
Byzantium.
Canonica, Patarene church.
Catharism.
Christ, Jesus.
Clement of Rome.
Constance.
Corpus Agrimensorum.
Damian, Peter.
Donation of Constantine.
Ecclesiastes.
Edict of Milan.
Eudes of Chartres.
Eusebius.
Galbert of Bruges.
Gerard of Csanád.
Henry I of England.
Heribald of Auxerre.
Hugh of Langres.
Jerusalem.
John of Salisbury.
Lactantius.
Landulf Senior.
abstract versus concrete.
abstraction.
acculturation.
allegory.
antisemitism.
asceticism.
authentication.
baptism.
behaviour, symbolic.
ceremony.
commune.
confession.
covering, allegorical.
custom.
decision-making.
ecclesia primitiva.
empiricism.
explanatio.
fascinati.
formalism.
grammaticus.
illiteracy.
immram.
incantation.
irrationality.
jongleurs.
justification.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Two traditions
  • Latin and Romance
  • The emergence of written culture
  • Literacy and early heresy
  • Literacy and reform : the Pataria
  • Guibert and "popular" culture
  • Interpreting the Eucharist
  • Nature as text
  • Anselm of Canterbury
  • Peter Abelard
  • Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Rituals, symbols, and interpretations.

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