Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France
Title | Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Coleman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2005-06-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521673518 |
This book demonstrates that received views on orality and literacy underestimate the importance of public reading in the late Middle Ages.
Participatory reading in late-medieval England
Title | Participatory reading in late-medieval England PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Blatt |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 323 |
Release | 2018-05-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1526118017 |
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences’ agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from well-known poems of Chaucer and Lydgate to wall texts, banqueting poems and devotional works written by and for women, Participatory reading argues that making readers work offered writers ways to shape their reputations and the futures of their productions. At the same time, the interactive reading practices they promoted enabled audiences to contribute to – and contest – writers’ burgeoning authority, making books and reading work for everyone.
Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England
Title | Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England PDF eBook |
Author | Mary C. Erler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2006-03-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521024570 |
Narratives of medieval women offer new insights into networks of female book ownership and exchange.
Household knowledges in late-medieval England and France
Title | Household knowledges in late-medieval England and France PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn D. Burger |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2019-10-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1526144239 |
This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made. Building on work on the noble and bourgeois medieval household, it considers bourgeois, gentry and collegiate households on both sides of the English Channel. The book argues that there is a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between domestic experience and its forms of cultural expression. Contributors address a range of cultural productions, including conduct texts, romances and comic writing, estates-management literature, medical writing, household music and drama and manuscript anthologies. Their studies provide a fresh illustration of the late-medieval household's imaginative scope, its extensive internal and external connections and its fundamental centrality to late-medieval cultural production.
Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London
Title | Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Richardson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 131732398X |
Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves. Whilst previous studies have tended to focus on middle-class literary reading patterns, this study examines writing skills separately both from reading skills and from literature.
Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England
Title | Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England PDF eBook |
Author | Hollie L. S. Morgan |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1903153719 |
First full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of the late middle ages.
Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
Title | Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | Antony J. Hasler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 269 |
Release | 2011-03-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139496727 |
This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.