The practice and politics of reading, 650-1500. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Daniel G. Donoghue, James Simpson, Nicholas Watson, Anna Wilson.
• Editors: Donoghue, Daniel, 1956-; Simpson, James, 1954-; Watson, Nicholas; Wilson, Anna
• Contents: Introduction - Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson, Nicholas Watson, Anna Wilson; PART I. PRACTICES OF READING; 1. Literally, What Did Medieval Readers See? - Daniel Donoghue; 2. Reading for the Ornament: Repetition and Structure in the Old English Exodus - Emily Thornbury; 3. A Canterbury School of Literary Theory: Aldhelm's De virginitate, the Liber monstrorum, and (Un)Reliable Fictions - Erica Weaver; 4. About Face: Addressing the Vernicle in Late Medieval England - Catherine Sanok; 5. Ascetic Reading - Amy Appleford; 6. Prayer at Plough: Medieval Reading Practices and the Work of the Paternoster - Kathryn Mogk Wagner; PART II. POLITICS OF READING; 7. Who Reads Now? The Anxieties of Millennial Reading: The 2019 Morton W. Bloomfield Lecture - Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe; 8. The Jewish Reader: A Medieval Antitype - Samantha Katz Seal; 9. Biblical Compilation, Regional Reading and Tailored Texts: The Making of Selwyn College MS 108 L. 1 - Andrew Kraebel; 10. Reading the Fair Maid of Astolat: Editorial Practice, Performative Emotionality and Communal Forms of Reading - Andrew James Johnston; 11. Marx Goes Fishing: The Temporalities of Idleness - Kathleen Tonry; 12. Shining Cities: Communal Reading and the New Jerusalem from Maidstone to McCain - Michelle De Groot; Bibliography; A Note on the Bloomfield Conferences; General Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 028.909420902; Books and reading -- England -- History -- To 1500; Books and reading -- Political aspects -- England; England -- Intellectual life
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800106369
• Related ISBNs: 9781843846413
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