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D.H. Green, Women Readers in the Middle Ages

D.H. Green, Women Readers in the Middle Ages

Publié le par Bérenger Boulay

D.H. Green,  Women Readers in the Middle Ages, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, coll. "Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature" n° 65, 2008,  312p. 

Hardback Isbn (ean13): 9780521879422.

Recension de cet ouvrage par Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth (Allegheny College) dans The Medieval Review: TMR 2008.10.09

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Throughout the Middle Ages, the number of female readers was fargreater than is commonly assumed. D. H. Green shows that, after clericsand monks, religious women were the main bearers of written culture andits expansion. Moreover, laywomen played a vital part in the processwhereby the expansion of literacy brought reading from religiousinstitutions into homes, and increasingly from Latin into vernacularlanguages. This study assesses the various ways in which reading waspractised between c.700 and 1500 and how these differed from what wemean by reading today. Focusing on Germany, France and England, itconsiders the different categories of women for whom reading isattested (laywomen, nuns, recluses, semi-religious women, heretics), aswell as women's general engagement with literature as scribes,dedicatees, sponsors, and authors. This fascinating study opens up theworld of the medieval woman reader to new generations of scholars andstudents.

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List of illustrations page vi
Acknowledgments viii
Abbreviations x
List of manuscript sigla xiv
Introduction 1 1 The Bible debate 6 2 Censorship 37 3 The translators 68 4 The canonical scriptures 83 5 The English prologues 103 6 The text 137 7 The effects 189
Appendix 1 Contents of the Wycliffite Bible 199
Appendix 2 Additions and select emendations to Forshall and Madden's edition of the Wycliffite Bible 210
Appendix 3 Textual scholarship: select readings 222
Appendix 4 Descriptions of select Wycliffite Bible manuscripts 235
Select bibliography 267
Index of manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible 281
General index 30