The Implications of Literacy: Written Language & Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh & Twelfth Centuries by Brian Stock
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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.
Princeton University Press, 1987.
ISBN: 9780691102276. 624 pp.
Softcover. Fine.