The Trope of Reading in the Fourteenth Century

Author / Editor
Kimmelman, Burt.

Title
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.