Reading, Singing and Understanding: Constructions of the Literacy of Women Religious in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Zieman, Katherine.
Reading, Singing and Understanding: Constructions of the Literacy of Women Religious in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Sarah Rees Jones, ed. Learning and Literacy in Medieval England and Abroad. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, no. 3 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003), pp. 97-120.
- Description
- Zieman examines the "liturgical literacy" of medieval nuns, exploring the extent to which they may have understood Latin texts that they performed. PrT presents "singing explicitly characterized as illiterate" as "the purest form of piety"; SNT presents vernacular translation as an extension of singing, preaching, and proclaiming faith.
- Contributor
- Jones, Sarah Rees, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Learning and Literacy in Medieval England and Abroad.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.