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Adalbero
Allegory
Ambivalence
Analogy
Appearance and Reality
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Awareness
Biblical authority
Brendan
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Christianity
Confraternity
Consciousness
Consecration
Critical theory
Criticism
Dialectic
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Exegesis
Explanation
God
Grammar
Guibert of Nogent
Hagiography
Heresy
Hermeneutics
High culture
Human spirit
Intellectualism
Interdependence
Lanfranc
Literacy
Literature
Memoir
Metaphor
Modernity
Narrative
Oral tradition
Orality
Paschasius Radbertus
Penitential
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Piety
Precedent
Rationality
Reality
Reason
Religious experience
Religious text
Reuse
Rhetoric
Rite
Sacramentum (oath)
Scholasticism
Sensibility
Simony
Spiritual development
Spirituality
Suggestion
Textuality
The Monastery
The Various
Theology
Theory
Thought
Treatise
Uncertainty
Understanding
Usage
Vocabulary
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691102276
- Weight: 879g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 1987
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
