Learning and communication

Question 1

What is the difference between active and passive literacy?

Answer 1

Active is reading and writing passive just reading

Question 2

What is seen as the highest level of EM literacy?

Answer 2

Being able to read Latin, Greek or Hebrew

Question 3

Literacy levels in 1640 according to Cressy

Answer 3

Men 30%
Women 10%
Londoners 78%

Question 4

% of women who couldn’t sign their name, Norwich 1580-1700

Answer 4

89

Question 5

Age at which it was assumed schoolboys could write

Answer 5

9-11

Question 6

Era with most Cambridge matricualtions and how many?

Answer 6

1610-1640
400 per year on average

Question 7

% of Brasenose college members who were commoners

Answer 7

40%

Question 8

% of Brasenose college members who were commoners

Answer 8

40%

Question 9

What did the arts degree consist of

Answer 9

7 liberal arts: grammar, logical, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music

Question 10

Number of new grammar schools between 1558 and 1603

Answer 10

136

Question 11

How many men entering higher education per year in 1630s?

Answer 11

1240 or 2.5% of male cohort

Question 12

% going to Oxford from lower, lower middle or middle class

Answer 12

51-54%

Question 13

According to Jordan number of schools for the pop and average distance to a school

Answer 13

One school for every 4,400 people. One within 12 miles

Question 14

What Bartholomew Hickling did for girls and the poor

Answer 14

left £6 to equip twenty girls with books gowns shoes and stockings. £8 left for 15 poor boys learning Latin or English

Question 15

% of London women able to sign their name or initial

Answer 15

25%

Question 16

% of London women able to sign their names in 1700 under twenty and in their 30s and 40

Answer 16

49% under 20
62% in their 30s and 40s

Question 17

The age children were able to read, write and cope with a working day

Answer 17

7, 9, 7

Question 18

Fraction of fathers that died by the time their child was 7 and implications

Answer 18

1/8, meant that family economy would collapse and child would have to leave school

Question 19

The two options for those who were schooled until the age of 14

Answer 19

Could either gain an apprenticeship or go to university. Tended to depend on social standing

Question 20

School entry at Aldenham in 1690s outlining rates of reading literacy

Answer 20

1/3 of 5 year olds
1/2 of 6 year olds
3-12 year olds was 60%

Question 21

Quote Spufford: The teaching of elementary schools to boys and girls

Answer 21

“Elementary schools were licensed to teach boys ‘reading, writing and to caste accomptes” “Girls were to be taught ‘to read, knit and spin’”

Question 22

literacy rates in the least advanced parishes at the end of the period

Answer 22

20%, means everywhere had at least 20% of men able to read

Question 23

Average sales of copies of print in 1660s

Answer 23

400,000 annually

Question 24

Literacy rates of different occupations

Answer 24

3% of thatchers were illiterate whilst 94% of grocers illiterate and 56% of tailors.

Question 25

Quote, Hubbard, the kind of world women lived in, may have limited literacy.

Answer 25

“Women lived in significantly feminine social worlds, working, talking, and spending time with one another”

Question 26

Quote, Spufford, the amount of schools in later period compared to earlier period.

Answer 26

“Between 1601 and 1640, half the settlements had a teacher at some time or another, and one-eighth of them had a school functioning continuously, as opposed to only one-sixteenth of them from 1561 to 1600 (Kent)

Question 27

Illiteracy of gentlemen

Answer 27

2% of gentlemen couldn’t sign their dispositions. Gentleman’s wills have been examined and 5% did not leave a mark.

Question 28

How the poor bridged the gap to the literate world

Answer 28

They would have one literate person in a society who could give them information.

Question 29

What fraction of women were learning how to read in London

Answer 29

1/3 born in London and 1/4 those who immigrated. Shows that a broader variety of women are learning not just gentlewomen

Question 30

Quote, Fox, the indicator of education

Answer 30

There is no more powerful demonstration of the basic divisions of wealth, rank and gender that characterised the early modern period than the extent to which people had access to education

Question 31

What % of 17 year olds were in attendance at Oxbridge in the 1630s?

Answer 31

2%

Question 32

Number of entrants to Oxford by the 1750s per year

Answer 32

200, much lower than what it had been in the 1610-40 period

Question 33

What % of higher education was made up of middle and lower classes in the 1580s and in 1760?

Answer 33

55% and 17%

Question 34

From what year were all teachers required a licence from the church?

Answer 34

1555

Question 35

What regions had the best schooling?

Answer 35

London and the counties close to it like Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Kent

Question 36

In 1500 what % of adult males and females could sign compared to 1714?

Answer 36

10% and 1% compared to 45% and 25%

Question 37

In what year were all legal proceedings moved to English?

Answer 37

1733

Question 38

How many unique texts were printed between 1500-1750?

Answer 38

300,000

Question 39

What % of all literature was London publishing in 1750?

Answer 39

86%

Question 40

What were chapbooks?

Answer 40

A collection of easy readings like ballads jokes and simple tales of fiction

Question 41

How many grammar schools were founded during Charles the 2nd’s reign?

Answer 41

Over 80

Question 42

What % of women in London could initial or sign their names

Answer 42

25%

Question 43

Historiography Hubbard/ Wyn Ford

Answer 43

They both argue that initials indicate a degree of literacy

Question 44

Quote: Thomas Lacquer, at what age literacy was developed, evidence to back it up

Answer 44

“basic literacy was not the result of just childhood but a more informal process continuing into adulthood”
In London 1700, 49% under twenty could sign their names but 62% in their 30s and 40s could.