IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1309: Clergymen, Noblemen, and Peasants: Oral and Literate Communication in the Medieval Countryside, I
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Marco Mostert, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Marco Mostert, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 1309-a | Late Medieval Rural Priests: How Literate Were They? (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - Rural, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 1309-b | The German Nobility and the Written Word in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Rural, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 1309-c | Peasants and Oral Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Literacy and Orality, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | When studying the literacy of town-dwellers, the question arises: what is 'urban' about 'urban literacy'? One way of answering this question is to shift the attention to the literacy of people living in the countryside: peasants, first of all, but also clerics and noblemen. The three papers in this session address the oral and literate ways of communicating by these three groups. Together, they suggest new approaches to studying literacy in the medieval countryside. The accompanying round table discussion will focus on the double question of the forms of communication in the countryside, and whether 'countryside literacy' is in fact a helpful notion in studying country people's oral and literate behaviour. |