Patient Reading/Reading Patience: Oxford Essays on Medieval English Literature

by Ralph Hanna

Book Overview

This volume brings together a variety of studies, some reprinted, some new; all are devoted to the literate culture of the English later Middle Ages. The studies hover about four foci: normative English polylingualism (across three grammatically distinct languages); the messiness and discontinuities of medieval manuscript production; drawing conclusions about historical audiences/literary communities on the basis of book-evidence; and finally,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786940558
• ISBN13: 9781786940551
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"