Literacy in Everyday Life

Reading and Writing in Early Modern Dutch Diaries
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17740-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Egodocuments and History Series

Until recently, historians of reading have concentrated on book ownership and trying to map out a history of who read what. The reading experience has been a subject more difficult to research. As has been pointed out before, egodocuments can be valuable sources in this case. Following this lead, Literacy in Everyday Life focuses upon four early modern Dutch diaries in which readers document their daily life and in which they recount their reading. In the analysis, other ways in which these four readers communicated are also addressed, especially speech and writing. This book therefore provides an insight into the possible uses of literacy and the interaction between the printed, written and spoken word in the early modern Dutch Republic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blaak, Jeroen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations and archive names

I. Historical research on reading and writing: from book ownership to the use of media
II. Mirror of literacy: reading and writing in the diary (1624) of David Beck
III. Aristocratic literacy: Pieter Teding van Berkhout and his ‘journal’ (1669-1712)
IV. Aural and eyewitness testimony: reading, writing, and discussions of current affairs in Jan de Boer’s chronological journal (1747-1758)
V. A devout reader and writer: literacy in Jacoba van Thiel’s ‘account-book of the soul’ (1767-1770)
VI. Literacy in everyday life

Appendix I: Reading behaviour in figures
Appendix II: Titles of books mentioned in the diaries

List of sources
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeroen Blaak is a member of the research group Egodocuments, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has written on several early modern and modern Dutch diaries and autobiographies.