The Trope of Reading in the Fourteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Kimmelman, Burt.
The Trope of Reading in the Fourteenth Century
- Published
- Ian Frederick Moulton, ed. Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 25-44.
- Description
- Surveys representations of reading in literature from Abélard and Héloise to Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, including commentary on TC. The "autonomy of the reader" developed in the fourteenth century.
- Alternative Title
- Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.