Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-204) and index.
Contents:
Mapping the readable household / Heather Blatt. 10. "Thys ys my boke": imaging the owner in the book / Daniel Wakelin -- 2. Reading John Walton's Boethius in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / A.S.G. Edwards -- 3. Reading in London in 1501: a micro-study / Julia Boffey -- 4. Not for profit: "amateur" readers of French poetry in late Medieval England / Stephanie Downes -- 5. Playing space: reading dramatic title-[ages in early printed plays / Tamara Atkin -- 6. Navigation by tab and thread: place-markers and readers' movement in books / Daniel Sawyer -- 7. Reading without books / Katie L. Walter -- 8. “[W]heþyr þu redist er herist redyng, I wil be plesyd wyth þe”: Margery Kempe and the locations for Middle English devotional reading and hearing / Ryan Perry and Lawrence Tuck -- 9. Privy reading / Mary C. Flannery -- 10. Mapping the readable household / Heather Blatt.
Summary:
"Drawing on a rich variety of material, this collection brings together essays on the history of the book, literary depictions of readers and reading, and medieval and modern literary theory in order to demonstrate how space and spatial concerns shaped reading in later medieval England"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.