Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Contributors and Editors xi
5. Acknowledgments xii
6. Abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I. Practices of Reading
9. 1 Literally, What Did Medieval Readers See? 21
10. 2 Reading for the Ornament: Repetition and Structure in the Old English Exodus 42
11. 3 A Canterbury School of Literary Theory: Aldhelm’s De virginitate, the Liber monstrorum, and (Un)Reliable Fictions 63
12. 4 About Face: Addressing the Vernicle in Late Medieval England 84
13. 5 Ascetic Reading 110
14. 6 Prayer at Plough: Medieval Reading Practices and the Work of the Paternoster 136
15. Part II. Politics of Reading
16. 7 Who Reads Now? The Anxieties of Millennial Reading: The 2019 Morton W. Bloomfield Lecture 161
17. 8 The Jewish Reader: A Medieval Antitype 181
18. 9 Biblical Compilation, Regional Reading, and Tailored Texts: The Making of Selwyn College MS 108 L. 1 200
19. 10 Reading the Fair Maid of Astolat: Editorial Practice, Performative Emotionality, and Communal Forms of Reading 228
20. 11 Marx Goes Fishing: The Temporalities of Idleness 246
21. 12 Shining Cities: Communal Reading and the New Jerusalem from Maidstone to McCain 264
22. Bibliography 289
23. A Note on the Bloomfield Conferences 321
24. General Index 323