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To: annalex
Here's a better illustration with the source link:

Literacy - Encyclopedia of European Social History

13 posted on 11/10/2012 2:40:46 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I still don’t see anything from the first map other than regions more advanced culturally, like Germany and Italy were also centers of printed book publishing.

Note that the symbolism of colored dots prevents the map from expressing the fact that a center prominent, say, in 1460’s, like Venice remained prominent in 1670’s and beyond as well.

The second map is from a different time frame, and it does show that mass literacy spread to “cold” countries first.

So would you summarize: “hot” temperament likes the image and “cold” temperament likes text? And that further, “hot” temperament is Catholic and “cold” temperament — Protestant?


15 posted on 11/10/2012 3:14:06 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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