Reading in the wilderness :: private devotion and public performance in late medieval England /

Just as twenty-first-century technologies like blogs and wikis have transformed the once private act of reading into a public enterprise, devotional reading experiences in the Middle Ages were dependent upon an oscillation between the solitary and the communal. In Reading in the Wilderness, Jessica...

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1. Verfasser: Brantley, Jessica
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Zusammenfassung:Just as twenty-first-century technologies like blogs and wikis have transformed the once private act of reading into a public enterprise, devotional reading experiences in the Middle Ages were dependent upon an oscillation between the solitary and the communal. In Reading in the Wilderness, Jessica Brantley uses tools from both literary criticism and art history to illuminate Additional MS 37049, an illustrated Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library. This revealing artifact, Brantley argues, closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medieval England. Dra.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 463 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-448) and indexes.
ISBN:9780226071343
0226071340
1281959197
9781281959195
9786611959197
661195919X

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