Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 252 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781787444416
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1787444414
Content:
Reading, writing, sharing texts, and book ownership in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and how they fostered social and intellectual links and networks between individuals, particularly among women: these are subjects which the pioneering work of Mary C. Erler has done so much to illuminate. The essays here, in this volume in her honour, build on her scholarship, engaging with Professor Erler's characteristic use of bibliography in the service of biography by investigating how the physical object of the book can enlighten our understanding of medieval readers and writers. They analyze, for example, what "reading" means in terms of the act itself (and the accessories, such as bookmarks, that helped to set the stage for reading), whether done aloud or silently, in such different venues as an aristocratic court, bourgeois household, village community, and monastic cloister. They also consider the culture of medieval reading practices, especially those of women, across social classes, and in terms of the transition between the pre- and post-Reformation periods; the fluidity of genre boundaries; and changes in devotional reading and writing in this liminal period. A wide variety of genres are covered, including secular romance, devotional texts, schoolbooks, and the illustrated Old Testament preface to the famous Queen Mary Psalter, which recasts the story and image of ancient Israelites to suit elite readerly taste
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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"Withinne a paved parlour": Criseyde and domestic reading in a city under siege / Joyce Coleman -- Beatrice Melreth: a London gentlewoman and her books / Caroline M. Barron -- How intellectual were fifteenth-century Londoners? Grammar versus logic in the citizens' encounters with learned men / Sheila Lindenbaum -- Social memory, literacy, and piety in fifteenth-century proofs of age / Joel T. Rosenthal -- Crafting the Old Testament in the Queen Mary Psalter / Kathryn A. Smith -- Affective reading and Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection at Syon / Michael G. Sargent -- Book accessories, gender, and the staging of reading / Heather Blatt -- Enska Vísan: Sir Orfeo in Iceland? / Martin Chase -- Reading the real housewives of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs / Allison Adair Alberts
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783273553
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1783273550
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reading and writing in medieval England Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2019 ISBN 1783273550
Language:
English
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