Engaging Words The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages
Acts of reading appear everywhere in the late Middle Ages, from the margins of Books of Hours to self-portraits of authors in their studies. What relevance did this image have for the late medieval imagination? Engaging Words is an interdisciplinary study
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THE NEW MIDDLE AGES BONNIE WHEELER
Series Editor The New Middle Ages presents transdisciplinary studies of medieval cultures. It includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE: Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics by Gregory B. Stone Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition by Sherry J. Mou The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France by Constant]. Mews Understanding Scholastic Thought with Foucault by Philipp W Rosemann For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh by Frances Underhill Constructions if Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England by Mary Dockray-Miller Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman edited by Bonnie Wheeler The Postcolonial Middle Ages edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse by Robert S. Sturges Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho Engaging JiVOrds: The Culture by Laurel Amtower
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ENGAGING WORDS THE CULTURE OF READING IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
Laurel Amtower
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ENGAGING WORDS
Copyright © Laurel Amtower, 2000. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2000 978-0-312-23383-9 All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address Palgrave, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. First published 2000 by PALGRAVE™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE™ is the new global publishing imprint of St. Martin's Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-1-349-63000-4
ISBN 978-1-349-62998-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-62998-5
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Amtower, Laurel. Engaging words : the culture of reading in the later Middle Ages / Laurel Amtower. p. cm.-(The new Middle Ages series) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Books and reading-Europe-History-To 1500. 2. Authors and readers-Europe-History-To 1500. 3. Libraries-Europe-HistoryTo 1500. 4. Middle Ages. I. Title. II. New Middle Ages. Z1003.5.E9 A48 2000 028'.9-dc21 00-030895 Design by Letra Libre, Inc. First edition: November 2000
For Bill and Madeleine
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Series Editor's Foreword Introduction: Engaging Texts
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Chapter 1
The Reading Public
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Chapter 2
The Image of the Book: Mediating the Aesthetics of R
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