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. It assembles and
analyses in depth, for the first time, an overwhelming mass of
evidence that in both Britain and France from the mid-fourteenth to
the late-fifteenth century, literate, elite audiences continued to
prefer public reading (aloud in groups) to private reading. This
book offers the first sustained critique of Walter Ong's Orality
and Literacy (1982), which has encouraged medievalists to
underestimate the nature and role of late medieval public reading.
Using an 'ethnographic' methodology, Joyce Coleman develops several
schema from the data and applies them in analyses of texts
including historical records, works by Chaucer and other writings
into the late-fifteenth century.
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