Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England

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.

“Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England, Mary Flannery and Carrie Griffin set out to contribute to scholarly debates on the history of reading by focusing on the 'relationship between where reading took place and how it took place'. … they aim to shed new light on different reading practices, and on the attitudes and responses people in late medieval England may have had towards reading.” (Patricia Stoop, sehepunkte, Vol. 19 (4), 2019)“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)

• 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