01:506:101 Lecture 6: Ch6
13 Mar 2018
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The next two chapters will deal with the cumulative increase of all forms of knowledge and the growing wealth of europe. These two developments help form the concept of progress. Separation of elite and popular cultures; the elite could participate down but the mass could not move up without exceptional transformation by education and marriage. The language of the educated became standardized in a nation; dictionaries were begun and the literacy rate rose. On the other hand, the popular culture was mainly oral and was much more resistant to change. Wealth produced major differences: the poor largely ate bread, cabbages and beans; they lived in crude shelters with limited furnishings; they ate from wooden bowls (and pewter). The homes of the wealthy were larger--more rooms, with glass windows and mirrors; the rich ate with forks from chinaware. Furnishings began to reflect a concern for style.
