LEADER 03530oam 2200685I 450 001 9910969880503321 005 20251116211344.0 010 $a1-317-87925-2 010 $a1-315-83923-7 010 $a1-317-87926-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315839233 035 $a(CKB)3710000000126703 035 $a(EBL)1710552 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001294229 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11758380 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001294229 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11317237 035 $a(PQKB)11090950 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1710552 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1710552 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10884233 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL618268 035 $a(OCoLC)881417364 035 $a(OCoLC)897463085 035 $a(OCoLC)884586117 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB138377 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000126703 100 $a20180706e20132002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiteracy in early modern Europe $eculture and education 1500-1800 /$fR.A. Houston 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 300 $a"First published 2002 by Pearson Education Limited"--T.p. verso. 311 08$a1-138-15518-7 311 08$a0-582-36810-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; 1 Introduction; 2 The World of the School; Types of School; Elementary Schools; Post-elementary Schools; Where were the Schools?; National Literacy Campaigns; Who went to School?; 3 Ways of Teaching; Teaching Materials; Teaching Methods; Schoolmasters; Schoolmistresses; 4 Higher Education; Universities; Who went to University?; 5 Ways of Learning; Outside the School; Desire for Learning; Limitations; 6 Sources and Measures of Literacy; Indirect Measures 327 $aDirect Measures7 Profiles of Literacy; Rich and Poor; Men and Women; Town and Country; Old and Young; Catholic and Protestant; Numeracy; Change; 8 Books and Readers; Book Production; Censorship; Book Distribution; Newspapers; Broadsheets and Chapbooks; The Price of Books; Book Ownership; Book Readership; Understanding; 9 Language, Orality and the Uses of Literacy; Language; Innovation and 'Modernisation'; Oral and Aural Culture; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples for all over the continent; and concentrates on the experience of ordinary men and women, rather than just privileged and exceptional elites. 606 $aEducation$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aLearning and scholarship$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aLiteracy$zEurope$xHistory 615 0$aEducation$xHistory. 615 0$aLearning and scholarship$xHistory. 615 0$aLiteracy$xHistory. 676 $a370.940903 676 $a370.940903 700 $aHouston$b R. A$g(Robert Allan),$f1954-$0870410 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969880503321 996 $aLiteracy in early modern Europe$94489562 997 $aUNINA