Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-42861-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 4041 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flannery, Mary C.

Griffin, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Mary C. Flannery is a Maître Assistante of English literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the author of John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame.

Carrie Griffin is a lecturer in early modern English literature in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick, Ireland and a Research Associate of English at the University of Bristol, UK. She published an edition of The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy with Middle English Texts/Winter in 2013.