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In the chantry schools grammar served, above all, to establish
oral fidelity.
* Once it is understood that oral culture has many
features of stability, quite non-existent in a visually organized
world, it is quite easy to enter the medieval situation. It is also
easier to grasp some of the basic changes in twentieth century
attitudes.
I turn briefly now to an unusual book by Istvan Hajnal
(24) about the teaching of writing in medieval universities. I
had opened this book in the expectation of finding, between
the lines, as it were, evidence of the ancient and medieval
practice of private reading aloud. I was not prepared to
discover that “writing” to a medieval student was not only
profoundly oral but inseparable from what is now called oratory