dc.contributor.author | Berg, Ivar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-05T06:41:13Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-15T06:58:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-01-05T06:41:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-15T06:58:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Edlund, Ann-Catrine; Edlund, Lars-Erik; Haugen, Susanne [Eds.] Vernacular Literacies - Past, Present and Future p. 125-135 Journal of Northern Studies, Umeå University and Royal Skyttean Society, 2014 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-91-88466-86-0 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1654-5915 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2392596 | |
dc.description.abstract | This contribution discusses how the increased importance
of literacy, in its widest meaning, in the beginning of the Early Modern
era affected the Common Man in Norway. What relationship did farmers
in remote areas have to the written word in the sixteenth century?
The paper claims a “literacy of the illiterate.” Even people who could
not themselves read were members of communities that relied on written
testimonies and their use; they were used to hearing charters read
out loud and knew how they were supposed to sound. The language
that defines rural charters on land trade and similar matters will first
be briefly compared to the general development in Norway during the
sixteenth century. Then there follows a discussion of what kind of people
were involved in the issuing and writing of charters, before these
charters are evaluated as sources of our understanding of the literary or
textual culture, if one may use such a word, of their time. The claim is
made that the social function of these texts and their peculiar linguistic
form (compared to other texts written in Norway at the same time) are
connected. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | Umeå University and the Royal Skyttean Society | nb_NO |
dc.title | Rural Literacy in Sixteenth Century Norway | nb_NO |
dc.type | Chapter | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.date.updated | 2015-01-05T06:41:13Z | |
dc.source.pagenumber | 125-135 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1149670 | |
dc.description.localcode | © The authors, the series Northern Studies Monographs and Vardagligt skriftbruk. | nb_NO |