The implications of literacy : written language and models of interpretation in the eleventh and twelfth centuries / / Brian Stock

• Autore: Stock Brian
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [1983]; ©1983
• Descrizione fisica: x, 604 p. ; ; 25 cm
• Disciplina: 001.543094
• Soggetto topico: Written communication - Europe - History; Learning and scholarship - History - Medieval, 500-1500
• Soggetto non controllato: Berengar of Tours; Boethius; Byzantium; Canonica, Patarene church; Catharism; Christ, Jesus; Clement of Rome; Constance; Corpus Agrimensorum; Damian, Peter; Donation of Constantine; Ecclesiastes; Edict of Milan; Eudes of Chartres; Eusebius; Galbert of Bruges; Gerard of Csanád; Henry I of England; Heribald of Auxerre; Hugh of Langres; Jerusalem; John of Salisbury; Lactantius; Landulf Senior; abstract versus concrete; abstraction; acculturation; allegory; antisemitism; asceticism; authentication; baptism; behaviour, symbolic; ceremony; commune; confession; covering, allegorical; custom; decision-making; ecclesia primitiva; empiricism; explanatio; fascinati; formalism; grammaticus; illiteracy; immram; incantation; irrationality; jongleurs; justification
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [533]-576) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I. ORAL AND WRITTEN -- II. TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES -- III. THE EUCHARIST AND NATURE -- IV. LANGUAGE, TEXTS, AND REALITY -- V. RITUALS, SYMBOLS, AND INTERPRETATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.Medieval and early modern literacy, Brian Stock argues, did not simply supersede oral discourse but created a new type of interdependence between the oral and the written. If, on the surface, medieval culture was largely oral, texts nonetheless emerged as a reference system both for everyday activities and for giving shape to larger vehicles of interpretation. Even when texts were not actually present, people often acted and behaved as if they were.The book uses methods derived from anthropology, from literary theory, and from historical research, and is divided into five chapters. The first treats the growth and shape of medieval literacy itself. Theo other four look afresh at some of the period's major issues--heresy, reform, the Eucharistic controversy, the thought of Anselm, Abelard, and St. Bernard, together with the interpretation of contemporary experience--in the light of literacy's development. The study concludes that written language was the chief integrating instrument for diverse cultural achievements.
• Titolo autorizzato: The implications of literacy
• ISBN: 1-4008-1927-X; 1-4008-2038-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247891003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.