Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages

by Laurel Amtower

Book Overview

Acts of reading appear everywhere in the late Middle Ages, from the margins of Books of Hours to self-portraits of authors in their studies. What relevance did this image have for the late medieval imagination? Engaging Words is an interdisciplinary study on the conception of reading in late medieval society. Beginning with an examination of the social conditions that produced a viable reading public, the book proceeds to examine popular tastes, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312233833
• ISBN13: 9780312233839
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"