Uses of the Written Word in Medieval Towns: Medieval Urban Literacy II

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In medieval towns, examples of personal writing appear more prevalent than in non-urban spaces. Certain urban milieus participating in written culture, however, have been the focus of more scholarship than others. Considering the variety among town dwellers, we may assume that literacy skills differed from one social group to another. This raises several questions: Did attitudes towards the written word result from an experience of the urban educational system? On which levels, and in which registers, did different groups of people have access to writing? The need and the usefulness of written texts may not have been the same for communities and for individuals. In this volume we will concentrate on the town dwellers’ personal documents. These documents include practical uses of writing by individuals for their own professional and religious ends, including testaments and correspondence. Besides written records belonging to the domain of ‘pragmatic literacy’, other kinds of texts were also produced in town. Was there any connection between practical literacy, literary (and historical) creativity and book production? Front Matter ("Editorial Board", "Title Page", "Copyright Page", "Table of Contents", "Preface", "Maps"), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. 1 Marco Mostert, Anna Adamska https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101942 Urban Communes, Ethnic Communities, and Language Use in Late Medieval Red Ruthenian Towns, p. 19 Andrzej Janeczek https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101943 Non-German Literacy in Medieval Livonia, p. 37 Anti Selart https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101944 Away with the Germans and Their Language? Linguistic Conflict and Urban Records in Early Fourteenth-Century Cracow, p. 65 Anna Adamska https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101945 Linguistic Tensions between Germans and Natives in Scandinavia Compared to Eastern Europe, p. 87 Arnved Nedkvitne https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101946 Cyrillic and Latin Script in Late Medieval Vilnius, p. 99 Jakub Niedźwiedź https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101947 The Role of Cities in Medieval Book Production: Quantitative Analyses, p. 119 Eltjo Buringh https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101948 Books and Booksellers in the Cities of the Crown of Aragon: The Example of Barcelona, p. 179 J. Antoni Iglesias-Fonseca https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101949 Libri suspecti, libri prohibiti: Wycliffite and Hussite Writings in Fifteenth-Century Polish Towns, p. 195 Paweł Kras https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101950 The Problem of Origins in Early Communal Historiography: Pisa, Genoa and Milan Compared, p. 227 Michele Campopiano https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101951 Writing about the Past of a Country from the Communal Viewpoint: Features, Models, and Examples in Croatian Humanist Historiography, p. 251 Iva Kurelac https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101952 Spoken and Written Words in Testaments: Orality and Literacy in Last Wills of Medieval Transylvanian Burghers, p. 271 Mária Lupescu Makó https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101953 Urban Testaments in Poland: Research Present and Future, p. 299 Jakub Wysmułek https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101954 Remembrance and Literacy: Memorial Practices of the Secular Clergy in Fifteenth-Century Bruges, p. 313 Hendrik Callewier https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101955 The Nuremberg Familienbücher: Archives of Family Identity, p. 325 Karin Czaja https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101956 Communication in a Town: Urban Rituals and Literacy in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary, p. 341 Dušan Zupka https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101957 Drama and Urban Literacy: Recording and Documenting the Performance in the Southern Low Countries (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries), p. 375 Katell Lavéant https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101958 Texts on Public Display: Strategies of Visualising Epigraphic Writing in Late Medieval Austrian Towns, p. 389 Andreas Zajic https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101959 Whither the Study of Medieval Urban Literacy?, p. 427 Marco Mostert, Anna Adamska https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101960 Back Matter ("Index"), p. 433