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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Manchester
Manchester University Press
2017
Baltimore, Maryland : 2019 |
| Series: | Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426980606719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
