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This pioneering collection of studies is concerned with the way in which increasing literacy interacted with the desire of thirteenth-century rulers to keep fuller records of their government's activities, and the manner in which this literacy could be used to safeguard or increase authority. In Europe the keeping of archives became an increasingly normal part of everyday administrative routines, and much has survived, owing to the prolonged preference for parchment rather than paper; in the Eastern civilisations material is more scarce. Papers discuss pragmatic literacy and record keeping in both West and East, through the medium of both literary and official texts. Dr RICHARD BRITNELL teaches in the Department of History at the University of Durham. Contributors: RICHARD BRITNELL, THOMAS BEHRMANN, MANUEL RIU, OLIVER GUYOTJEANNIN, GAeRARD SIVAeRY, MANFRED GROTEN, MICHAEL NORTH, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, PAUL HARVEY, GEOFFREY MARTIN, GEOFFREY BARROW, ROBERT SWANSON, NICHOLAS OIKONOMIDES, ELIZABETH ZACHARIADOU, I.H. SIDDIQUI, TIMOTHY BROOK, YOSHIYASU KAWANE

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330
• Author: Richard Britnell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 274
• EAN: 9780851156958
• ID: 04737782
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Weight: 565 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. March 1997

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