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Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France » (New Edition)

Authors: Joyce Coleman, Patrick Boyde (Editor), Alastair Minnis
ISBN-13: 9780521673518, ISBN-10: 0521673518
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: New Edition

This book demonstrates that received views on orality and literacy underestimate the importance of public reading in the late Middle Ages.

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	Preface
1	On beyond Ong: the bases of a revised theory of orality and literacy	1
2	Taxonomies and terminology: the pursuit of disambiguity	34
3	A review of the secondary literature	52
4	The social context of medieval aurality: introductory generalizations from the data	76
5	Aural history	109
6	An "ethnography of reading" in Chaucer	148
7	An "ethnography of reading" in non-Chaucerian English literature	179
	Conclusion	221
	Notes	223
	Glossary	228
	Bibliography	231
	Index	245