Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages

Introduction Engaging Texts Chapter One: The Reading Public Literary Production and the Book Trade Book Owners and Book Readers Literacy: Public Performance and Private Cognition Reading, Privacy, and the Self Chapter Two: The Image of the Book: Mediating the Aesthetics of Reader Response The Late Medieval Best-Seller Marginalia and the Iconography of Reading The Reader in the Text Chapter Three: Authorized Readers, or, Reading Authority The Medieval Commentary Tradition Beyond the Book: Humanist Reading and the Poetics of the Self Glossing the Self: The Vita Nuova Re-reading Augustine: Petrarch and the Book Chapter Four: The Ethics of Reading Chaucer and the Ethics of Reading The Origins of Language The Ethics of Fame Authorizing Readers Chapter Five: Textual Subjects Reading as Foresight: Cassandra and the Book of History 'The Text Ful Hard is to Fynde' Experiential Poetics: The Prioress and the Wife of Bath The Fate of Readers Conclusion: Identity and the Book Bibliography... Mehr