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List of Plates | |
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Preface to the First Edition | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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Introduction | |
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Being Prejudiced in Favour of Literacy | |
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Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Literacy | |
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England's Place in Medieval Literacy | |
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TheMaking of Records | |
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Memories and Myths of the Norman Conquest | |
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The Formation of a Norman Official Memory | |
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The Anglo-Saxon Heritage of Literacy | |
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Latin and the Language of Domesday Book | |
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William the Conqueror's Symbolic Knife | |
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The EarlWarenne's Rusty Sword | |
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The Proliferation of Documents | |
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Documents at Village Level | |
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The Chronology of Charter Making | |
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The Output of Royal Documents | |
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Documents and Bureaucracy | |
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TheWork of HubertWalter | |
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Royal Influence on Other Records | |
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Appendix | |
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Types of Record | |
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The Variety ofWritings | |
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Statements Issued by Individuals | |
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Memoranda Kept by Institutions | |
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Learned and LiteraryWorks | |
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Liturgical Books | |
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The Technology ofWriting | |
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The Scribe and His Materials | |
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Wax, Parchment, andWood | |
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CommittingWords toWriting | |
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Layout and Format | |
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Rolls or Books? | |
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The Preservation and Use of Documents | |
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Monastic Documents for Posterity | |
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Secular Documents for Daily Use | |
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Archives and Libraries | |
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The Royal Archives | |
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Ways of Remembering | |
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Ways of Indexing | |
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The LiterateMentality | |
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What Reading Meant | |
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Languages of Record | |
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Walter of Bibbesworth's Treatise | |
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The Variety of Languages | |
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Spoken andWritten Language | |
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Chronological Development | |
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TheWriting Down of French | |
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Royal Documents in Latin, French, and English | |
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Literate and Illiterate | |
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Meanings of 'Clericus' and 'Litteratus' | |
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The Question of the Literacy of the Laity | |
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Knowledge of Latin Among Non-Churchmen | |
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The Acquisition of Clerical Education | |
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Educated Knights | |
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Hearing and Seeing | |
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Symbolic Objects and Documents | |
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The Spoken Versus theWrittenWord | |
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Listening to theWord | |
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The SpokenWord in Legal Procedure | |
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Writings asWorks of Art | |
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Word and Image | |
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TrustingWriting | |
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Memory andWriting | |
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Dating Documents | |
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Signing Documents | |
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The Symbolism of Seals and Crosses | |
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Forging Documents | |
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Pragmatic Literacy | |
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Postscript by the Author | |
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List of Abbreviations | |
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Select Further Reading | |
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Plates | |
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Index | |