D.H. Green Women readers in the Middle Ages

The author shows that - after clerics and monks - religious women were the main bearers of written culture and its expansion. Moreover, laywomen played a vital part in the process whereby the expansion of literacy brought reading from religious institutions into homes, and increasingly from Latin into vernacular languages. This study assesses the various ways in which reading was practised between c. 700 and 1500 and how these differed from what we mean by reading today. Focusing on Germany, France...

Engels | 296 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | 2007

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