Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
ISBN-10
0521812216
ISBN-13
9780521812214
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 16th, 2002
Print length
244 Pages
Weight
514 grams
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15.90 x 23.60 x 2.30 cms
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Through seven narratives of individual medieval women, prefaced by an overview of nuns' reading and of women who owned printed books, Mary Erler traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure, and shows how women were responsible for both owning and circulating devotional books.
Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England traces networks of female book ownership and exchange which have so far been obscure, and shows how women were responsible for both owning and circulating devotional books. In seven narratives of individual women who lived between 1350 and 1550, Mary Erler illustrates the ways in which women read and the routes by which they passed books from hand to hand. These stories are prefaced by an overview of nuns' reading and their surviving books, and are followed by a survey of women who owned the first printed books in England. An appendix lists a number of books not previously attributed to religious women's ownership. Erler's narratives also provide studies of female friendship, since they situate women's reading in a network of family and social connections. The book uses bibliography to explore social and intellectual history.
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