Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England
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Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England

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Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England by Mary C. Flannery, C. Griffin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & European Medieval History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781137428615
eBook ISBN
9781137428622
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Medieval History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Copyright
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. “Thys ys my boke”: Imagining the Owner in the Book
  11. 2. Reading John Walton’s Boethius in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
  12. 3. Reading in London in 1501: A Micro-Study
  13. 4. Not for Profit: “Amateur” Readers of French Poetry in Late Medieval England
  14. 5. Playing Space: Reading Dramatic Title-Pages in Early Printed Plays
  15. 6. Navigation by Tab and Thread: Place-Markers and Readers’ Movement in Books
  16. 7. Reading without Books
  17. 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
  18. 9. Privy Reading
  19. 10. Mapping the Readable Household
  20. Bibliography
  21. List of Contributors
  22. Index