Reading and Singing: Liturgy, Literacy, and Literature in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Zieman, Katherine Grace.
Reading and Singing: Liturgy, Literacy, and Literature in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 818A.
- Description
- Late-medieval liturgical activities--especially benefactions and the education that lay behind them--resulted from a variety of conditions and motives and produced a volatile environment that influenced the rise of vernacular literacy.
- Langland's Piers Plowman, Gower's Vox Clamantis, and HF and MilT reflect this volatility in various ways, with Chaucer claiming authority for the vernacular.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Miller and His Tale.
- House of Fame.