Medieval Habit, Modern Sensation: Reading Manuscripts in the Digital Age

Author / Editor
Nolan, Maura.

Title
Medieval Habit, Modern Sensation: Reading Manuscripts in the Digital Age

Published
Chaucer Review 47.4 (2013): 465-76.

Description
Examines what is lost when we look at a digitized manuscript instead of the material book, which invokes the senses of touch, smell, and taste and the habits of the medieval reader. Mentions the graphic tail-rhyme in Th as a type of habit that invokes particular perceptions.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Tale of Sir Thopas