Eating the Book : Reading and the Formation of the Devout Subject in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Baule, Cynthia Anne.
Eating the Book : Reading and the Formation of the Devout Subject in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2293A, 2000.
- Description
- In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the English laity became increasingly literate, in part because readers consumed religious literature to increase their devotion and to achieve personal relationship with God. PrT and SNT, among other medieval works, demonstrate the Christian laity's need for vernacular reading ability.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.