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Author: Joyce Coleman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-30
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521673518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates that received views on orality and literacy underestimate the importance of public reading in the late Middle Ages.
Author: Mary C. Erler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-03-09
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521024570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarratives of medieval women offer new insights into networks of female book ownership and exchange.
Author: Glenn D. Burger
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1526144239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made. Building on work on the noble and bourgeois medieval household, it considers bourgeois, gentry and collegiate households on both sides of the English Channel. The book argues that there is a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between domestic experience and its forms of cultural expression. Contributors address a range of cultural productions, including conduct texts, romances and comic writing, estates-management literature, medical writing, household music and drama and manuscript anthologies. Their studies provide a fresh illustration of the late-medieval household's imaginative scope, its extensive internal and external connections and its fundamental centrality to late-medieval cultural production.
Author: Sabrina Corbellini
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page. - St Jerome, 384 AD With these words, the Church Father Jerome exhorted the young Eustochium to find on the sacred page the spiritual nourishment that would give her the strength to live a life of chastity and to keep her monastic vows. His call to read does not stand alone. Books and reading have always played a pivotal role in early and medieval Christianity, often defined as 'a religion of the book'. A second important stage in the development of the 'religion of the book' can be attested in the late Middle Ages, when religious reading was no longer the exclusive right of men and women living in solitude and concentrating on prayer and meditation. Changes in the religious landscape and the birth of new religious movements transformed the medieval town into a privileged area of religious activity. Increasing literacy opened the door to a new and wider public of lay readers. This seminal transformation in the late medieval cultural horizon saw the growing importance of the vernacular, the cultural and religious emancipation of the laity, and the increasing participation of lay people in religious life and activities. This volume presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to religious reading and reading techniques in a lay environment within late medieval textual, social, and cultural transformations.
Author: Malcolm Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 131732398X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves. Whilst previous studies have tended to focus on middle-class literary reading patterns, this study examines writing skills separately both from reading skills and from literature.
Author: Hollie L. S. Morgan
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1903153719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of the late middle ages. The bed, and the chamber which contained it, was something of a cultural and social phenomenon in late-medieval England. Their introduction into some aristocratic and bourgeois households captured the imagination of late-medievalEnglish society. The bed and chamber stood for much more than simply a place to rest one's head: they were symbols of authority, unparalleled spaces of intimacy, sanctuaries both for the powerless and the powerful. This change inphysical domestic space shaped the ways in which people thought about less tangible concepts such as gender politics, communication, God, sex and emotions. Furthermore, the practical uses of beds and chambers shaped and were shaped by artistic and literary production. This volume offers the first interdisciplinary study of the cultural meanings of beds and chambers in late-medieval England. It draws on a vast array of literary, pragmatic and visual sources, including romances, saints' lives, lyrics, plays, wills, probate inventories, letters, church and civil court documents, manuscript illumination and physical objects, to shed new light on the ways in which beds and chambersfunctioned as both physical and conceptual spaces. Hollie L.S. Morgan is a Research Fellow in the School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln.
Author: Antony J. Hasler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-10
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1139496727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.
Author: Lisa H. Cooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-10
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0521768977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book-length study to articulate the vital presence of artisans and craft labor in medieval English literature from c.1000-1483.
Author: Amy Noelle Vines
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1843842750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.
Author: Helen Barr
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2001-12-06
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0191540862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice. Readings of both English and Latin texts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries are grounded in close textual study which reveals the social positioning of these works and the kinds of ideological work they can be seen to perform. Distinctive new readings of texts emerge which challenge received interpretations of literary history and late medieval culture. Canonical authors and texts such as Chaucer, Gower, and Pearl are discussed alongside the less familiar: Clanvowe, anonymous alliterative verse, and Wycliffite prose tracts.
