Oral Tradition

 I am sure that at least once everyone has had that feeling where they think of something
intelligent and insightful wether for a project or just random reflection and quickly rush for a peace
of paper and a pen to write it down so they wont forget it. The thought that this means of maintaining
information was never a constancy does not enter the minds of most present day individuals. To us,
a piece of paper and a pencil are nondescript and the alphabet was something we learned back in
kindergarten. It is hard for someone who lives in today’s society to even contemplate what it must
have been like to not have this means of writing down and preserving information. To the people who
lived in the era of primary orality, however, this means of insuring information was nonexistent.

Before the alphabet was developed in the middle ages, people lived in what is called primary
orality. In this time frame the only way to remember news, names, and even your own per...