Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150–1400

Katharine (Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Illinois) Breen

Cambridge University Press, 2013

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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
9781107694613
ISBN-10
1107694612
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
Publication date
2013-11-21
Pages
302
Dimensions
154x229x21
Weight
442