Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France
Joyce (University of North Dakota) Coleman
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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This book challenges the hitherto generally accepted belief that late-medieval writers wrote for an audience of individual, private readers. Coleman argues that both in Britain and France, from the mid-fourteenth to the late-fifteenth century, literate, elite audiences continued to prefer public reading aloud to private reading.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521673518
- ISBN-10
- 0521673518
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2005
- Publication date
- 2005-06-30
- Pages
- 280
- Dimensions
- 155x230x23
- Weight
- 440