Aurality

Author / Editor
Coleman, Joyce.

Title
Aurality

Published
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 68-85.

Description
Coleman clarifies differences between "aurality" and "orality," assessing references to reading aloud and speaking aloud in Middle English texts, especially Chaucer's works, and citing depictions of such practice in manuscript illustrations, including two depictions from Chaucer: the Troilus frontispiece (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 61) and an initial in Lansdowne 851 (British Library).

Alternative Title
Middle English (Strohm)

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.