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Reading And Writing

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very few people knew how to read and write, however more knew to read than to write. In manuscript era, reading and writing become separate skills, where writing required professional, trained skills, very often demanding equipment which was difficult to find; and it was not required as reading.
Literacy had different modes; it could have a form of dictating to a scribe. One might be trained to read without ability to write, scribe could be thought to copy the existing text, or take a citation, without ability to compose a text, while writing included several levels of competence, from copying to composing a text in the vernacular or some of the Christianity languages. In 12th century it comes to a social grouping and rapid grow of social …show more content…

By the end of the Middle English period the idea of literacy is established, and denotes a huge change, as to take a book as a reference. Once being reading, or writing, or reading and writing at the same time, as being for the concept itself, literacy was first canonized thoroughly in the period of the 13-14th …show more content…

One of the monasteries from that period, which could commend with its abundance and as one with great scriptoria, is Christ Church Canterbury, a first explicit evidence of royal archive of administrative documents. Very popular way of maintaining the book is the form of codex, a manuscript book, or a collection, which for the first time denoted using a book for storing a text. It was usually garnished and embellished in the form of rubrics and enlarged initials, calligraphy and illuminations, in that way making the distinction between the piece of art and practical object very difficult to make. In all medieval art manuscripts were primarily ornamental, and thus each unique, sometimes embroidered or very often embellished with silver or gold. For that reason they were held as treasured objects, kept by sacristans or by Templers. Production of documents and texts are various; from the religious texts - Bibles, psalms, sermons; legal texts, land charters, wills - to the translations dating from Alfred and other

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