The Practice and Politics of Reading, 650-1500

doi:10.1017/9781800106352

A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue durée.

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The Practice and Politics of Reading, 650-1500

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations
pp ix-x

Contributors and Editors
pp xi-xi

Acknowledgments
pp xii-xii

Abbreviations
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-18

Part I - Practices of Reading
pp 19-20

1 - Literally, What Did Medieval Readers See?
pp 21-41

2 - Reading for the Ornament: Repetition and Structure in the Old English Exodus
pp 42-62

3 - A Canterbury School of Literary Theory: Aldhelm's De virginitate, the Liber monstrorum, and (Un)Reliable Fictions
pp 63-83

4 - About Face: Addressing the Vernicle in Late Medieval England
pp 84-109

5 - Ascetic Reading
pp 110-135

6 - Prayer at Plough: Medieval Reading Practices and the Work of the Paternoster
pp 136-158

Part II - Politics of Reading
pp 159-160

7 - Who Reads Now? The Anxieties of Millennial Reading: The 2019 Morton W. Bloomfield Lecture
pp 161-180

8 - The Jewish Reader: A Medieval Antitype
pp 181-199

9 - Biblical Compilation, Regional Reading, and Tailored Texts: The Making of Selwyn College MS 108 L. 1
pp 200-227

10 - Reading the Fair Maid of Astolat: Editorial Practice, Performative Emotionality, and Communal Forms of Reading
pp 228-245

11 - Marx Goes Fishing: The Temporalities of Idleness
pp 246-263

12 - Shining Cities: Communal Reading and the New Jerusalem from Maidstone to McCain
pp 264-288

Bibliography
pp 289-320

A Note on the Bloomfield Conferences
pp 321-322

General Index
pp 323-339

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