Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England

AvMary C. Flannery,C. Griffin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien New Middle Ages

1 379 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Fler format och utgåvor

E-bok

1 229 kr

Häftad

1 005 kr

Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-03-02
Mått:140 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt:442 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Middle Ages
Antal sidor:215
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137428615

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

Mary C. Flannery is a Maître Assistante of English literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the author of John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame.Carrie Griffin is a lecturer in early modern English literature in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick, Ireland and a Research Associate of English at the University of Bristol, UK. She published an edition of The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy with Middle English Texts/Winter in 2013.

Recensioner i media

"The essays here offer an in-depth, insightful exploration of those complexities. Recommended for research collections, especially those supporting medieval, early modern, and/or textual studies programs. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced students through researchers/faculty." (J. Stevens, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Mary C. Flannery and Carrie Griffin1. "Thys ys my boke": Imagining the Owner in the Book; Daniel Wakelin2. Reading John Walton's Boethius in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; A. S. G. Edwards3. Reading in London in 1501: A Micro-Study; Julia Boffey4. Not For Profit: 'Amateur' Readers of French Poetry in Late Medieval England; Stephanie Downes5. Playing Space: Reading Dramatic Title-Pages in Early Printed Plays; Tamara Atkin6. Navigation by Tab and Thread: Place-Markers and Readers' Movement in Books; Daniel Sawyer7. Reading Without Books; Katie L. Walter8. "[W]heþyr þu redist er herist redyng, I wil be plesyd wyth þe": Margery Kempe and the Locations for Middle English Devotional Reading and Hearing; Ryan Perry and Lawrence Tuck9. Privy Reading; Mary C. Flannery10. Mapping the Readable Household; Heather Blatt