Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France by Joyce Coleman

Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Joyce Coleman

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For a long time scholars have generally shared the belief that late medieval authors - particularly in England and especially Chaucer - wrote for private readers. This book challenges that view and current orthodoxies in orality-literacy theory. I...

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