Women Readers in the Middle Ages

by D.H. Green

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Throughout the Middle Ages, the number of female readers was far greater than is commonly assumed. D. H. Green 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521174376

ISBN13:9780521174374

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.01 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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