Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society
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Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Setting the Stage Introduction: Literacy's Legacies 1. The Origins of Western Leteracy 1. From Writing to Literacy 2. Literacy's First Legacies: From Athens 3. ...to Rome, and Beyond Part Two: Before the Printing Press: The Middle Ages 2. Th Light of Literacy in the "Dark Ages" 1. Fifth-Seventh Centuries 2. Seventh Century 3. Eighth Century 4. Ninth-Tenth Centuries 3. New Lights of Literacy and Learning: From the Tenth-Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries 1. Italy and Commercial Revolution 2. The Church, Papacy, and Schools 3. Patterns of Literacy 4. Thought, Theory, and Practice 4. Ends and Beginnings: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 1. Humanism and the Italian Renaissance 2. Continental Conditions in Literacy 3. The English Example 5. Print, Protest, and the People 1. The Advent and Impact of Print 2. Renaissance(s) Revisited 3. Print, Reform, and Reformation 4. Reforming Literacy Provision 6. Toward Enlightenment/Toward Modernity: 1660-1780 1. Thinking about Literacy and Schooling 2. Patterns of Literacy: Paths to Literacy Part Four: Toward the Present and the Future 7. The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Our Times 1. The Setting 2. Literacy's Paths and Patterns Epilogue: Today and Tomorrow: Revisioning Literacy 1. Twentieth-Century Trends in Literacy Levels 2. Imputed Impacts and Consequences; or, Great and Other Dichotomies Revisited 3. A Crisis in Literacy? 4. Literacy, Culture, and Society: Communications and the Future of Literacy Notes Index