Participatory reading in late-medieval England /

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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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Blatt, Heather (Auteur)
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Reeks:Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.