Spaces for reading in later Medieval England
By: edited by Mary C. Flannery and Carrie Griffin
Series: The new Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781137428615
Subjects: Literature and society; Book industries and trade; Intellectual life; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; Space and time; Books and reading; Civilization; HISTORY / Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; History
Description: "Drawing on a rich variety of material, this collection brings together essays on the history of the book, literary depictions of readers and reading, and medieval and modern literary theory in order to demonstrate how space and spatial concerns shaped reading in later medieval England"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; Mary C. Flannery and Carrie Griffin; title: 1. "Thys ys my boke": Imagining the Owner in the Book; Daniel Wakelin; title: 2. Reading John Walton's Boethius in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; A. S. G. Edwards; title: 3. Reading in London in 1501: A Micro-Study; Julia Boffey; title: 4. Not For Profit: 'Amateur' Readers of French Poetry in Late Medieval England; Stephanie Downes; title: 5. Playing Space: Reading Dramatic Title-Pages in Early Printed Plays; Tamara Atkin; title: 6. Navigation by Tab and Thread: Place-Markers and Readers' Movement in Books; Daniel Sawyer; title: 7. Reading Without Books; Katie L. Walter; title: 8. "[W]he&#195;&#190;yr &#195;&#190;u redist er herist redyng, I wil be plesyd wyth &#195;&#190;e": Margery Kempe and the Locations for Middle English Devotional Reading and Hearing; Ryan Perry and Lawrence Tuck; title: 9. Privy Reading; Mary C. Flannery; title: 10. Mapping the Readable Household; Heather Blatt.