| A | B |
|---|
| Church | universal power |
| Latin | proper (used by the educated) and vulgar (used by the common people) |
| Grammar | occult, mysterious and suspicious |
| Plato | writing is inhuman |
| Literacy Pre-1951 | ability to sign own name |
| illiterate leaders | William the Conqueror and Charlemagne |
| Middle Ages | generation of listening |
| audit | to listen in the 12th century |
| column set | writing over previously used skins |
| Gallows | forgiven if able to read |
| Canterbury and York | sites of famous forgeries |
| Nationalism | rise in own language, and culture |
| Word division | to learn how to read aloud |
| Clericus | literate in reading and writing |
| Litteratus | one who is literate |
| Literate-definition 1956 | reading and writing in relation to place/time/group |
| learning material | scarce; no great amount to learn from/on |
| absence of proven fact | gossip and opinion taken as fact |
| power of writing | kept within the Church |
| end of Middle Ages | people breaking away from Church; rise in nationalism |
