6.00 CHAPTER SIX: Vernacular Literacy, Commercial Education, and How To Do Stuff

Latin education dominated the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance; but the future of educational publishing was in producing entirely new textbooks for teaching students who would learn to read only their native, vernacular language. This chapter considers these new reading, writing, and arithmetic books, and then discusses How-To books that provided instruction in practical disciplines.

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