Catechism, a literary genre of a religious origin, was once employed in the teaching of ‘lay’ subjects, especially of a technical nature. This is a review of this past editorial tradition which illustrates the potentialities and the limitations of agrarian catechisms, with a special focus on their spreading across Southern Italy in the late Enlightenment. This paper reflects on whether a book was the best instrument to hand down procedures and notions to people who supposedly were illiterate or unschooled.
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Francesco Paola de Ceglia
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University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’
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1824-2049
Publication Name:
Journal of Science Communication
Volume:
10
Number:
1
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