Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England »

Katherine Zieman teaches English at the University of Notre Dame.

In Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word.

List of Illustrations     vii
Preface     ix
Ex Ore Infantium: Literacy and Elementary Educational Practices in Late Medieval England     1
Singing the New Song: Literacy, Clerical Identity, and the Discourse of Choral Community     40
Legere et non Intellegere Negligere Est: The Politics of Understanding     73
Extragrammatical Literacies and the Latinity of the Laity     114
"Pe Lomes Pat y Labore With": Vernacular Poetics, Clergie, and the Repertoire of Reading and Singing in Piers Plowman     150
Reading, Singing, and Publication in the Canterbury Tales     181
Notes     211
Bibliography     263
Index     285