Medieval Reading
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Medieval Reading
Author: Suzanne Reynolds
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1996-08-22
This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages.
Medieval Listening and Reading
Author: Dennis Howard Green
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1994-08-25
This study brings recent scholarly debates on oral cultures and literate societies to bear on the earliest recorded literature in German (800-1300). It considers the criteria for assessing what works were destined for listeners, what examples anticipated readers, and how for both modes of reception could apply to one work, exploring the possible interplay between them. The opening chapters review previous scholarship and the introduction of writing into preliterate Germany. The core of the book presents lexical and non-lexical evidence for the different modes of reception, taken from the whole spectrum of genres, from dance songs to liturgy, from drama and heroic literature to the court narrative and lyric poetry. The social contexts of reception and the physical process of reading books are also considered. Two concluding chapters explore the literary and historical implications of the slow interpenetration of orality and literacy. There is a comprehensive bibliographical index of primary sources.
Reading Medieval Anchoritism
Author: Mari Hughes-Edwards
language: en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date: 2012-06-15
This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.