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 duree. Even as it transforms human cultures, routines,
attention spans, and the wiring of our brains, the media revolution
of the last few decades also urges a reconsideration of the long
history of reading. The essays in this volume take a new look at
how reading was practised and represented in England from the
seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, using texts
from Aldhelm to Malory and Wynkyn de Worde, arguing that whether
unpicking intricate Latin, contemplating image-texts, or
participating in semiotically-rich public rituals, reading
cultivated and energized the subject's values, perceptions, and
attitudes to the world. Part I, "Practices of Reading", asks how
writers, scribes and artists engaged readerly attention through
textual layout, poetic form, hermeneutic difficulty, or images,
while Part II, "Politics of Reading", explores how different
textual communities manipulated the anxieties and opportunities for
education, moral improvement or entertainment associated with
reading; particular topics addressed include Bible translation and
exegesis, page layout, literary form and readerly practice,
fiction, hermeneutics, and performance. Although it understands
reading as culturally and technologically localized, the book finds
many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue
duree and the literatures and literacies that proliferate today.
Contributors: Amy Appleford, Michelle De Groot, Daniel Donoghue,
Andrew James Johnston, Andrew Kraebel, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe,
Catherine Sanok, Samantha Katz Seal, James Simpson, Emily V.
Thornbury, Kathleen Tonry, Kathryn Mogk Wagner, Nicholas Watson,
Erica Weaver, Anna Wilson.
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