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Reading and writing in medieval England : essays in honor of Mary C. Erler /

Reading, writing, sharing texts, and book ownership in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and how they fostered social and intellectual links and networks between individuals, particularly among women: these are subjects which the pioneering work of Mary C. Erler has done so much to illuminate....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Chase, Martin (Editor), Kowaleski, Maryanne (Editor), Erler, Mary Carpenter (honouree.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2019
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Withinne a paved parlour": Criseyde and domestic reading in a city under siege / Joyce Coleman
  • Beatrice Melreth: a London gentlewoman and her books / Caroline M. Barron
  • How intellectual were fifteenth-century Londoners? Grammar versus logic in the citizens' encounters with learned men / Sheila Lindenbaum
  • Social memory, literacy, and piety in fifteenth-century proofs of age / Joel T. Rosenthal
  • Crafting the Old Testament in the Queen Mary Psalter / Kathryn A. Smith
  • Affective reading and Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection at Syon / Michael G. Sargent
  • Book accessories, gender, and the staging of reading / Heather Blatt
  • Enska Vísan: Sir Orfeo in Iceland? / Martin Chase
  • Reading the real housewives of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs / Allison Adair Alberts