LEADER 04525nam 2200817 450 001 9910814743703321 005 20230510181035.0 010 $a1-5261-3064-5 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526130648 035 $a(CKB)3810000000290582 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5405982 035 $a(OCoLC)1085610957 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72856 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992980106826101631 035 $a(DE-B1597)658740 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526130648 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000290582 100 $a20200113h20172012 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPopular reading in English c. 1400-1600 /$fElisabeth Salter 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2017. 210 4$d©2012 215 $a1 online resource (x, 260 pages) $cillustrations; digital file(s) 311 08$aversion imprimée 9780719077999 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 $aBooks and reading$zGreat Britain$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aBooks and reading$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature$2mup 606 $aProse: Non-Fiction$2bicssc 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General$2bisach 606 $aBiography & non-fiction prose$2thema 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y16th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y1066-1485 610 $aEnglish. 610 $aearly modern England. 610 $afictional literature. 610 $aliterary form. 610 $aliterary voice. 610 $amanuscript. 610 $amaterial evidence. 610 $amoral reading. 610 $apage layout. 610 $apopular reading. 610 $apractical texts. 610 $aprinted book. 610 $areading experience. 610 $areading practice. 610 $areligious texts. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 7$aLiterature 615 7$aProse: Non-Fiction 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / General 615 7$aBiography & non-fiction prose 676 $a028.9094109024 700 $aSalter$b Elisabeth$f1972-$01638936 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814743703321 996 $aPopular reading in English c. 1400-1600$93981625 997 $aUNINA