Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Author / Editor
Moulton, Ian Frederick, ed.

Title
Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Published
Turnhout: Brepols, 2004.

Physical Description
xviii, 193 pp.

Description
Nine essays by various authors on reading habits and the trope of reading in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. The introduction by Moulton (ix-xviii) comments on evidence of reading practice in GP and other literature and summarizes the essays included in the volume. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance under Alternative Title.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales