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Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Setting the Stage Introduction:LiteracyOs Legacies 1. The Origins of Western Leteracy 1. From Writingto Literacy 2. LiteracyOs First Legacies: From Athens 3. ...to Rome,and Beyond Part Two: Before the Printing Press: The Middle Ages 2. ThLight of Literacy in the ODark AgesO 1. Fifth-Seventh Centuries 2.Seventh Century 3. Eighth Century 4. Ninth-Tenth Centuries 3. NewLights of Literacy and Learning: From the Tenth-Eleventh to the ThirteenthCenturies 1. Italy and Commercial Revolution 2. The Church, Papacy,and Schools 3. Patterns of Literacy 4. Thought, Theory, and Practice4. Ends and Beginnings: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 1.Humanism and the Italian Renaissance 2. Continental Conditions inLiteracy 3. The English Example 5. Print, Protest, and the People 1.The Advent and Impact of Print 2. Renaissance(s) Revisited 3. Print,Reform, and Reformation 4. Reforming Literacy Provision 6. TowardEnlightenment/Toward Modernity: 1660-1780 1. Thinking about Literacy andSchooling 2. Patterns of Literacy: Paths to Literacy Part Four: Towardthe Present and the Future 7. The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Our Times1. The Setting 2. LiteracyOs Paths and Patterns Epilogue: Today andTomorrow: Revisioning Literacy 1. Twentieth-Century Trends in LiteracyLevels 2. Imputed Impacts and Consequences; or, Great and OtherDichotomies Revisited 3. A Crisis in Literacy? 4. Literacy,Culture, and Society: Communications and the Future of Literacy NotesIndex