New Literacy Studies, close reading, and historical sociolinguistics inform Amsler's analyses of late medieval writing and textual cultures. Amsler argues that medieval reading and writing make sense t as individual expressions with discrete texts but as multilingual, sociocultural, and intertextual practices that 'make people up' and that sustain or challenge dominant ideologies and reading formations. Rather than a single Literacy, we find socially situated literacies within manuscript matrices. Bringing new historical dimensions to literacy studies, Amsler explores the intertextualities, affective relations, and social contests in these multilingual formations. Individual chapters examine literacies as cultural practice in schooling and in elite and popular texts by Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, Dante, Margery Kempe, devotional writers, Erasmus, and the Jewish convert Hermann von Sheda, along with grammatical writing, mythography, charms, drama, and educational texts. This volume illustrates the diversity of late medieval multilingual writings, textual performances, and embodied readings
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Publisher
Brepols N.V.
ISBN-10
2503532365
ISBN-13
9782503532363
eBay Product ID (ePID)
158365327
Product Key Features
Author
Mark Amsler
Format
Hardback
Language
English, French, English & French & Latin, Latin
Subject
Linguistics
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Turnhout
Content Note
Illustrations
Author Biography
Dr Mark Amsler is senior lecturer at the Department of English of the University of Auckland, New Zealand.