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- catalog contributor b2455322.
- catalog created "c1989.".
- catalog date "1989".
- catalog date "c1989.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1989.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- Statement of purpose and plan -- Human evolution and language -- Urban civilization -- History of written systems -- 2. Mesopotamian civilizations -- Cuneiform writing -- Scribal schools -- Bilingualism -- Development of mathematics, astronomy, law, literature -- 3. The Aegean Bronze age -- Cretan civilization -- Seapower -- Wine, oil and palaces -- Linear A script -- Mycenaean Greek and linear B tablets -- 4. The Greek Dark age and rebirth -- Loss of literacy -- Mycenaean survivals in oral poetry -- The Greek alphabet -- Greek trade and colonization -- Spread of literacy -- Law-codes, poetry and philosophy -- 5. Classical Greece -- The fifth century -- The intellectual revolution -- From mythical to logical thought -- Literacy, the catalyst -- Man's self-discovery -- General functional literacy as basis of democracy -- 6. The 4th century -- Plato and Aristotle -- Standardization of letters and spelling -- Universal literacy -- Plato's philosophy -- Aristotle and Alexander -- Aristotle's scientific method and philosophy -- 7. The Hellenistic period -- Alexander's empire -- Hellenization -- The successors -- The Alexandrian library and museum -- Philosophic schools -- Greek literacy conquers the east -- 8. Hellenism and the Jews -- Hellenization of the Jews -- Reaction and revolt -- Jewish independence -- Religious and class conflict -- Christianity and Roman occupation -- Diaspora and the bond of literacy".
- catalog description "9. Hellenism and Roman literacy -- Hellenization of the Roman elite -- Bilingual education and literacy -- Latin literature -- Hellenistic science: The great textbooks -- 10. Christianity and the late empire -- Pressure from without and internal conflict -- The eastern religions, Sol Invictus -- Christianity -- from persecuted to dominant -- From Diocletian to Justinian -- Collapse of the Western empire -- 11. The Renaissance: Humanism -- Italian origins -- Collection and restoration of manuscripts -- The impact of printing -- The European community of learning -- Reformation -- Classicism -- 12. The Renaissance: Science -- From printed classical texts to new beginnings -- The revival of medical science -- The Copernican revolution -- 13. From Copernicus to Newton -- Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo -- 14. The 18th century -- Experimental science -- The age of reason and American literacy -- The American revolution and its ancient models -- 15. The 19th century -- The industrial revolution -- Compulsory education and universal literacy -- The golden age of the printed world -- Epilogue -- Present and future -- The historic correlation between literacy and intellectual advance -- Cultural benefits -- Literacy, rationality and logic -- Dissenting voices -- Effects of literate education on brain development -- Clinical findings -- Recent literature -- Literacy in the electronic age -- Appendix -- The transmission of the great Hellenistic textbooks to Renaissance Europe".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [337]-364.".
- catalog extent "xii, 378 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0820408964 :".
- catalog isPartOf "Studia classica (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 1.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studia classica ; vol. 1".
- catalog issued "1989".
- catalog issued "c1989.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog subject "652/.1 19".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Western.".
- catalog subject "Literacy History.".
- catalog subject "Technology and civilization.".
- catalog subject "Writing History.".
- catalog subject "Z40 .B85 1989".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- Statement of purpose and plan -- Human evolution and language -- Urban civilization -- History of written systems -- 2. Mesopotamian civilizations -- Cuneiform writing -- Scribal schools -- Bilingualism -- Development of mathematics, astronomy, law, literature -- 3. The Aegean Bronze age -- Cretan civilization -- Seapower -- Wine, oil and palaces -- Linear A script -- Mycenaean Greek and linear B tablets -- 4. The Greek Dark age and rebirth -- Loss of literacy -- Mycenaean survivals in oral poetry -- The Greek alphabet -- Greek trade and colonization -- Spread of literacy -- Law-codes, poetry and philosophy -- 5. Classical Greece -- The fifth century -- The intellectual revolution -- From mythical to logical thought -- Literacy, the catalyst -- Man's self-discovery -- General functional literacy as basis of democracy -- 6. The 4th century -- Plato and Aristotle -- Standardization of letters and spelling -- Universal literacy -- Plato's philosophy -- Aristotle and Alexander -- Aristotle's scientific method and philosophy -- 7. The Hellenistic period -- Alexander's empire -- Hellenization -- The successors -- The Alexandrian library and museum -- Philosophic schools -- Greek literacy conquers the east -- 8. Hellenism and the Jews -- Hellenization of the Jews -- Reaction and revolt -- Jewish independence -- Religious and class conflict -- Christianity and Roman occupation -- Diaspora and the bond of literacy".
- catalog tableOfContents "9. Hellenism and Roman literacy -- Hellenization of the Roman elite -- Bilingual education and literacy -- Latin literature -- Hellenistic science: The great textbooks -- 10. Christianity and the late empire -- Pressure from without and internal conflict -- The eastern religions, Sol Invictus -- Christianity -- from persecuted to dominant -- From Diocletian to Justinian -- Collapse of the Western empire -- 11. The Renaissance: Humanism -- Italian origins -- Collection and restoration of manuscripts -- The impact of printing -- The European community of learning -- Reformation -- Classicism -- 12. The Renaissance: Science -- From printed classical texts to new beginnings -- The revival of medical science -- The Copernican revolution -- 13. From Copernicus to Newton -- Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo -- 14. The 18th century -- Experimental science -- The age of reason and American literacy -- The American revolution and its ancient models -- 15. The 19th century -- The industrial revolution -- Compulsory education and universal literacy -- The golden age of the printed world -- Epilogue -- Present and future -- The historic correlation between literacy and intellectual advance -- Cultural benefits -- Literacy, rationality and logic -- Dissenting voices -- Effects of literate education on brain development -- Clinical findings -- Recent literature -- Literacy in the electronic age -- Appendix -- The transmission of the great Hellenistic textbooks to Renaissance Europe".
- catalog title "The power of the written word : the role of literacy in the history of Western civilization / Alfred Burns.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".