Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150–1400

Katharine (Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Illinois) Breen

Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Examining the concept of habitus - acquired patterns of thought, behaviour and taste that result from internalizing culture or objective social structures - Katharine Breen argues that the adaptation of elite, clerical forms of habitus for lay audiences established the conceptual foundations for a reading public in medieval England.

ISBN-13
9780521199223
ISBN-10
0521199220
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
Publication date
2010-04-29
Pages
300
Dimensions
161x236x23
Weight
592