Small books and pleasant histories  -  Margaret Spufford

popular fiction and its readership in seventeenth-century England

KORTE INHOUD

Attention has increasingly turned in recent years from the economic and agricultural framework of the life of the English villager in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to his or her social and mental world. Margaret Spufford’s interest in literacy, and particularly in the ability to read, which laid the villager open to all sorts of external influences other than those coming from the pulpit and the manor house, has led her in this book to examine both the spread of reading ability, and one of the pri...
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1981 Uitgever: Methuen 275 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0416741509 ISBN-13: 9780416741506