Chapter 2. “Goddes instrumentz”: Offices and Their Media

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction. Understanding Premodern Media 1
4. Part I. Saeculum
5. Chapter 1. Ambient Media and Literary Narration 37
6. Chapter 2. “Goddes instrumentz”: Offices and Their Media 71
7. Part II. Technê
8. Chapter 3. Networks of Transmission 97
9. Chapter 4. Veil and Knot: Media Technologies of Fiction 124
10. Part III. Spiritus
11. Chapter 5. Extending Bodies: Gender and Race in Spiritual Media 155
12. Chapter 6. Making an End: Immediacy and Pastoral Meditation 184
13. Notes 213
14. Bibliography 233
15. Index 257
16. Acknowledgments 267