LEADER 03606oam 22005294a 450 001 9910480864603321 005 20190827040840.0 010 $a1-5261-3064-5 035 $a(CKB)3810000000290582 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5405982 035 $a(OCoLC)1085610957 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72856 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000290582 100 $a20181221e20182012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPopular reading in English c. 1400?1600$fby Elisabeth Salter 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2018 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2020 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (277 pages) 311 $a0-7190-7799-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [235]-255) and index. 327 $aIntroduction to methods and terms -- Religious reading and reform -- Making meaning from moral reading -- Practical texts : husbandry and carving -- Fictional literature : Gawain in a Middle English miscellany -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis book is about reading practice and experience in late medieval and early modern England. It focuses on the kinds of literatures that were more readily available to the widest spectrum of the population. Four case studies from many possibilities have been selected, each examining a particular type of popular literature under the headings 'religious', 'moral', 'practical' and 'fictional'. A key concern of the book is how we might use particular types of evidence in order to understand more about reading practice and experience, so issues of method and approach are discussed fully in the opening chapter. One distinctive element of this book is that it attempts to uncover evidence for the reading practices and experiences of real, rather than ideal, readers, using evidence that is found within the material of a book or manuscript itself, or within the structure of a specific genre of literature. Salter attempts to negotiate a path through a set of methodological and interpretive issues in order to arrive at a better understanding of how people may have read and what they may have read. This, in turn, leads on to how we may interpret the evidence that manuscripts and early printed books provide for the ways that medieval and early modern people engaged with reading. This book will be of interest to academics and research students who study the history of reading, popular culture, literacy, manuscript and print culture, as well as to those interested more generally in medieval and early modern society and culture. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBooks and reading$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zGreat Britain$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y16th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y1066-1485 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 676 $a028.9094109024 700 $aSalter$b Elisabeth$f1972-$01052897 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480864603321 996 $aPopular reading in English c. 1400?1600$92484433 997 $aUNINA