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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255229103321

Autore

Flannery Mary C (Mary Colleen)

Titolo

Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England / / by Mary C. Flannery ; edited by C. Griffin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-42862-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIV, 215 p.)

Collana

The New Middle Ages

Classificazione

HIS037010LIT006000LIT007000LIT011000

Disciplina

028/.90942

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

Literature, Medieval

Social history

Classical literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

History of Medieval Europe

Medieval Literature

Social History

Classical and Antique Literature

Europe History 476-1492

England Intellectual life 1066-1485

England Civilization 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction; Mary C. Flannery and Carrie Griffin -- 1. "Thys ys my boke": Imagining the Owner in the Book; Daniel Wakelin -- 2. Reading John Walton's Boethius in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; A. S. G. Edwards -- 3. Reading in London in 1501: A Micro-Study; Julia Boffey -- 4. Not For Profit: 'Amateur' Readers of French Poetry in Late Medieval England; Stephanie Downes -- 5. Playing Space: Reading Dramatic Title-Pages in Early Printed Plays; Tamara Atkin -- 6. Navigation by Tab and Thread: Place-



Markers and Readers' Movement in Books; Daniel Sawyer -- 7. Reading Without Books; Katie L. Walter -- 8. "[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 Tuck -- 9. Privy Reading; Mary C. Flannery -- 10. Mapping the Readable Household; Heather Blatt.

Sommario/riassunto

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.