Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors xi
5. List of Abbreviations xiv
6. Introduction: Bibliography in the Service of Biography 1
7. “Withinne a Paved Parlour”: Criseyde and Domestic Reading in a City under Siege 9
8. Beatrice Melreth: A London Gentlewoman and her Books 39
9. How Intellectual Were Fifteenth-Century Londoners? Grammar versus Logic in the Citizens’ Encounters with Learned Men 56
10. Social Memory, Literacy, and Piety in Fifteenth-Century Proofs of Age 81
11. Crafting the Old Testament in the Queen Mary Psalter 100
12. Affective Reading and Walter Hilton’s Scale of Perfection at Syon 130
13. Book Accessories, Gender, and the Staging of Reading 150
14. Enska Vísan: Sir Orfeo in Iceland? 178
15. Reading the Real Housewives of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs 211
16. The Writings of Mary Carpenter Erler 233
17. Index 239
18. Tabula Gratulatoria 252