Custom and the social organisation of writing in early modern England
(1999)
Journal Article
Wood, A. (1999). Custom and the social organisation of writing in early modern England. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 9, 257-269. https://doi.org/10.2307/3679403
Social historians of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England have tended to see literacy as a modernising force which eroded oral tradition and overrode local identities. Whereas the increasing literacy of the period has long appeared an important... Read More about Custom and the social organisation of writing in early modern England.