Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007 Hard cover New. 312 p. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature . Intended for professional and scholarly audience.

Cambridge Univ Pr, Date: 2007. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 328 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. 2007. Cambridge Univ Pr ISBN 0521879426 9780521879422 [GB]

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007 Hard cover New. 312 p. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature . Intended for professional and scholarly audience.

ISBN10: 0521879426, ISBN13: 9780521879422, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Throughout the Middle Ages, the number of female readers was far greater than is commonly assumed. D. H. Green shows that, after clerics and monks, religious women were the main bearers of written culture and its expansion. Moreover, laywomen played a vital part in the process whereby the expansion of literacy brought reading from religious institutions into homes, and increasingly from Latin into vernacular languages. This study assesses the various ways in which reading was practised between c.700 and 1500 and how these differed from what we mean by reading today. Focusing on Germany, France and England, it considers the different categories of women for whom reading is attested (laywomen, nuns, recluses, semi-religious women, heretics), as well as women's general engagement with literature as scribes, dedicatees, sponsors, and authors. This fascinating study opens up the world of the medieval woman reader to new generations of scholars and students.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2008]
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