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Author Cressy, David.

Title Literacy and the social order : reading and writing in Tudor and Stuart England / David Cressy
Published Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980

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Description x, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Reading, writing and the margins of literacy; 2. The acquisition of literacy; 3. The measurement of literacy; 4. Literacy and loyalty; 5. Lay illiteracy in ecclesiastical records; 6. The structure of illiteracy; 7. The dynamics of illiteracy; 8. Literacy and society in England and beyond
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 231-243
Subject Books and reading -- Social aspects -- England.
Books and reading -- England -- History.
Education -- Great Britain -- History.
Literacy -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Literacy -- Social aspects -- England.
Literacy -- Great Britain -- History.
Literacy -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Literacy -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Literacy -- England -- History.
Popular culture -- England.
SUBJECT England -- Social conditions -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043313
England -- Social conditions -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043314
LC no. 79041767
ISBN 0521225140