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Women Readers in the Middle Ages Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition

by D. H. Green


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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.

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  • Title Women Readers in the Middle Ages
  • Author D. H. Green
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2007-11-22
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780521879422 / 0521879426
  • Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.44 x 0.97 in (23.01 x 16.36 x 2.46 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Women and literature - England - History -, Women - Books and reading - England -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008295808
  • Dewey Decimal Code 028.908
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