LITERACY AND CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN CASTILE
LITERACY AND CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN CASTILE
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早期现代卡斯蒂利亚的读写能力和文化
DOI:
10.1093/past/125.1.65
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发表时间:
1989
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影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Sara T. Nolle
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作者:
Sara T. Nolle
Twenty-five years ago Lawrence Stone published in the pages of thi journal an article entitled" The Educational Revolution in England 1560 to 1640", which inaugurated a generation of debate on th impact of higher education on early modern European society. 1 Students and Society in Early Modem Spain RL Kagan argued th Spanish, like other European, universities expanded greatly durin the sixteenth century to meet the demands of the growing state fo professionally trained bureaucrats, magistrates and priests. In th larger towns and cities interest in education flourished; inspired by Renaissance humanism, many municipal councils funded loc schools which they hoped would impart sound learning and Christia virtues to the children of Spain. Altogether, the interest in educati and the increasing importance of university-trained specialists affected Spanish society that Kagan ventured to call the changes veritable revolution, one which helps explain how it was that a relatively underdeveloped, sparsely populated country could'dom nate the European scene for a century. 2 The spectacular growth of the Spanish university system durin the sixteenth century could not occur in an educational or cultur vacuum. The expansion of the universities was supported by a little-documented parallel rise in the availability (and attractiveness) o secondary education. 3 Expanded access to schools in turn might have increased literacy among traditionally uneducated classes just at time when the printing-press began to put books within popula reach. For the historian, this possible conjuncture of trends opens a Pandora's box of questions. What happened when the vulgo, as th Spanish called the uneducated classes, began to read? Were the