CAN HUMANE LITERACY SURVIVE WITHOUT A GRAND NARRATIVE?

I want to begin by recounting a story from the earliest days of literacy in the English-speaking world. It was the end of the sixth century. The flower of Roman antiquity had wilted and then been blasted into fragments by corruption from within and barbarian invasions from without. But Christian mis...

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1. Verfasser:	David Lyle Jeffrey
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Arts Behavioral sciences Christianity Communication skills Communications Communities Education Educational institutions Epistemology Formal education Historical methodology Historiography History History of philosophy Human societies Humanism Language skills Literacy Literary modes Literary postmodernism Literature Narratives Personality Personality psychology Personality theories Philosophy Postmodern philosophy Psychology Reading Religion Schools Social groups Social sciences Sociology Spiritual belief systems Universities Wisdom Written narratives
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Zusammenfassung:	I want to begin by recounting a story from the earliest days of literacy in the English-speaking world. It was the end of the sixth century. The flower of Roman antiquity had wilted and then been blasted into fragments by corruption from within and barbarian invasions from without. But Christian missionaries were still being sent out, bearing their book into dark and brooding lands such as that of the islanded Angles, Jutes and dreaded Saxons. The effect of eventual Christianization on the savage Germanic warriors who ruled what is now England was, despite resistance, remarkable in its amelioration of their