‎HOGGART RICHARD‎
‎THE USES OF LITERACY‎

‎The Uses of Literacy. Aspects of working-class life, with special references to publications and entertainments.‎

‎ London, Chatto and Windus, 1971, in-8°, 319 pp, biblio, index, cart. éditeur, jaquette, bon état. Texte en anglais‎

‎La culture du pauvre (The uses of Literacy). Etude sur le style de vie des classes populaires en Angleterre. Traduction de Françoise et Jean-Claude Garcias et de Jean-Claude Passeron. Présentation et index de Jean-Claude Passeron.‎

‎ P., Editions de Minuit (Collection "Le Sens Commun"), 1970, in 8° broché, 420 pages ; bibliographie et index in-fine. ‎

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

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2014 Hardcover. XX 453 p., 25 b/w ill., 9 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503549606.‎

‎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?‎

‎Transforming the Medieval World Uses of Pragmatic Literacy in the Middle Ages. A CD-ROM and Book‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2006 Hardcover. X 312 p., CD, 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, German, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503511665.‎

‎When viewed retrospectively, the period between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries was a phase of European history that was characterized by a radical and fundamental media transformation. Before this time, the vast majority of the population had never encountered the written word in their day-to-day activities. From the beginning of the second millennium, however, texts began to appear in, and influence, almost every sphere of human life. Medieval written texts were subject to revision, copying, embellishments, and deletions; they were read silently and aloud, and they were recited in a variety of contexts. This CD-ROM and book, Transforming the Medieval World, presents these changes dynamically by linking texts and images from this period, and by providing detailed commentaries on each of them. The multimedia environment offered on the CD visualizes these textual transformations and illustrates the adaptability and dynamism of writing and its reception. The uses of writing in this early phase of intensive European literacy are analysed in eleven separate multimedia presentations, which are almost all based on research carried out by the Special Research Unit (SFB) between 1986 and 1999. The CD also contains an anthology of important essays, which provide the user with further reading materials, as well as a general bibliography. The book which accompanies the CD-ROM facilitates the use of the CD itself, and provides the various multimedia presentations in written format. As such, Transforming the Medieval World will be invaluable to both scholars and students interested in medieval literacy.‎