Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France
- Author / Editor
- Coleman, Joyce.
Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France
- Physical Description
- xiv, 250 pp.
- Description
- Argues that public reading was popular because people enjoyed listening to books in company. Aural audiences included literate upper-middle-class and upper-class readers well into the Renaissance, when aural reading changed. Elite audiences preferred the social experience of literature long after the rise of print expanding literacy. For a chapter that pertains to Chaucer, search for Public Reading and the Reading Public under Alternative Title.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.