Pragmatic Literacy, East and West 1200-1330, Hardcover by Britnell, R. H. (ED...

Description: Pragmatic Literacy, East and West 1, Hardcover by Britnell, R. H. (EDT); International Congress of Historical Sciences 1990 (Madrid, Spain) (COR), ISBN 0851156959, ISBN-13 9780851156958, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 which this 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 for parchment 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. The late Professor RICHARD BRITNELL taught in the Department of History at the University of Durham. Contributors: RICHARD BRITNELL, THOMAS BEHRMANN, MANUEL RIU, OLIVER GUYOTJEANNIN, GÉRARD SIVÉRY, MANFRED GROTEN, MICHAEL NORTH, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, PAUL HARVEY, GEOFFREY MARTIN, GEOFFREY BARROW, ROBERT SWANSON, NICHOLAS OIKONOMIDES, ELIZABETH ZACHARIADOU, . SIDDIQUI, TIMOTHY BROOK, YOSHIYASU KAWANE

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Book Title: Pragmatic Literacy, East and West 1200-1330

Number of Pages: 274 Pages

Publication Name: Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330

Language: English

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited

Subject: Literacy, Europe / Medieval

Publication Year: 1997

Item Height: 0.8 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 20 Oz

Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, History

Item Length: 9.3 in

Author: G. W. S. Barrow

Item Width: 6.5 in

Format: Hardcover