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Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330 (Hardcover)
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Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330 (Hardcover)
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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, GERARD SIVERY, 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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