Participatory reading in late-medieval England

Participatory reading in late-medieval England / Heather Blatt.

This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences' agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blatt, Heather (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Manchester [England] : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Series:Manchester medieval literature and culture.
Subjects:
To 1599
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and society > England > History > To 1500.
Reading > England > 16th century.
Reading > England > To 1500.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
English literature > Middle English
Literature and society
Reading
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reading practices and participation in digital and medieval media
  • Corrective reading: Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and John Lydgate's Troy Book
  • Nonlinear reading: The Orcherd of Syon, Titus and Vespasian, and Lydgate's Siege of Thebes
  • Reading materially: John Lydgate's 'Soteltes for the coronation banquet of Henry VI'
  • Reading architecturally: The wall texts of a Percy family manuscript and the Poulys Daunce of St Paul's Cathedral
  • Reading temporally: Thomas of Erceldoune's prophecy, Eleanor Hull's Commentary on the penitential Psalms, and Thomas Norton's Ordinal of alchemy
  • Conclusion: Nonreading in late-medieval England.

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