Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08543_Field_TCGG T308.txt

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and what was then called pronuntiatio , which was and
remained the fifth major division of standard rhetorical study.
Just why delivery or pronuntiatio  was taken so seriously in the
ancient and medieval worlds, gets new meaning from Hajnal’s
work: “The art of writing was held in great esteem because they
saw in it the proof of a solid oral training.”

     The story of writing as oral training helps to explain the
early age of entry to the medieval university. For the proper
study of the development of writing we must consider that the
students began their course at the university at the age of
twelve or fourteen. “In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the
necessity of knowing Latin grammar, as well as material
obstacles like the rarity of parchment, could push back the age
at which writing might acquire its definitive form.”