We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and developments in the publication and consumption of literature continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual contexts in which reading can take place. In comparison with the accessibility that has accompanied these developments, the medieval reading experience may initially seem limited and restrictive, available only to a literate few or to their listeners; yet attention to the spaces in which medieval reading habits can be traced reveals a far more vibrant picture in which different kinds of spaces provided opportunities for a wide range of interactions with and contributions to the texts being read. Drawing on a rich variety of material, this collection of essays demonstrates that the spaces in which reading took place (or in which reading could take place) in later medieval England directly influenced how and why reading happened.
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Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Copyright
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. “Thys ys my boke”: Imagining the Owner in the Book
- 2. Reading John Walton’s Boethius in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- 3. Reading in London in 1501: A Micro-Study
- 4. Not for Profit: “Amateur” Readers of French Poetry in Late Medieval England
- 5. Playing Space: Reading Dramatic Title-Pages in Early Printed Plays
- 6. Navigation by Tab and Thread: Place-Markers and Readers’ Movement in Books
- 7. Reading without Books
- 8. “[W]he yr u redist er herist redyng, I wil be plesyd wyth e”: Margery Kempe and the Locations for Middle English Devotional Reading and Hearing
- 9. Privy Reading
- 10. Mapping the Readable Household
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
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