ENGLISH

Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England

By David Cressy

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1980
ISBN
0521225140, 9780511560484, 0521032466, 0511560486, 9780521032469, 9780521225144
LCC
LC156.G7 C73
Open Library ID
OL4425947M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1709133 bytes)
Pages
258\258
Library
ebook3000.com
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

In this exploration of the social context of reading and writing in pre-industrial England, David Cressy tackles important questions about the limits of participation in the mainstream of early modern society. To what extent could people at different social levels share in political, religious, literary and cultural life; how vital was the ability to read and write; and how widely distributed were these skills? Using a combination of humanist and social-scientific methods, Dr Cressy provides a detailed reconstruction of the profile of literacy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, looking forward to the eighteenth century and also making comparisons with other European societies.

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