Engaging Words : The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages

Name: Engaging Words
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781349630004
Price: 14400 KES
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ISBN: 9781349630004

1st ed. 2000

by L. Amtower

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series The New Middle Ages

ISBN-10 1349630004

ISBN-13 9781349630004

Edition 1st ed. 2000

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 18th, 2002

Print length 243 Pages

Product Classification: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval European history Medieval history Social & cultural history Cultural studies Cultural studies History European history Social and cultural history

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By drawing on images from late medieval culture as well as from historical documents and literary texts, Engaging Words shows how reading became a cultural metaphor in the late Middle Ages that transformed the way the Western world thought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.

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 By drawing on images from late medieval culture as well as from historical documents and literary texts, Engaging Words shows how reading became a cultural metaphor in the late Middle Ages that transformed the way the Western world thought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.

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