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MACMILLAN Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)

Name: Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)
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Product Description 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 on the conception of reading in late medieval society. Beginning with an examination of the social conditions that produced a viable reading public, the book proceeds to examine popular tastes, the interrelationship between manuscript form and content, and finally the theory and poetry of late medieval authors. By drawing on images from late medieval culture as well as from historical documents and literary texts, Engaging Words shows how reading became a cultural metaphor in the late Middle Ages that transformed the way the Western world thought about identity and social roles. Review "...this brave project is fascinating..." - Alison Frazier, Libraries & Culture "...substantial in scope...it calls on various disciplines to weave a large and intriguing argument about the understanding of reading from the High to the Late Middle Ages." - History:Reviews of New Books "Amtower succeeds in showing a sophisticated, varied, and often-ironic sense of reading as a metaphor for all manner of comprehension in late-medieval art and literature." - Choice About the Author Laurel Amtower is Associate Professor of English at San Diego State University.

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Brand: MACMILLAN
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1349630004
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Medieval
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 December 2002
Listed Since: 27 May 2016

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