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...story that, when studied, invites us to complicate our ideas about what it means to be literate in one's national language." (4) ...to Latin changed the ''structure'' of literacies characteristic of A-S and Norman England (Clanchy's argument) (97-8)

Clanchy: increasing use of written documents in English law from Norman conquest (1066) to death of Edward I (1307); Street suggests legal changes ...eading which ''allowed language to be seen as composed of words related by means of a syntax.'' Writing thereby provides the model for the production of spe