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Patient Reading/Reading Patience
Oxford Essays on Medieval English Literature. Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
By (author)
III Ralph Hanna
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Synopsis
This volume brings together a variety of studies, some reprinted, some new; all are devoted to the literate culture of the English later Middle Ages. The studies hover about four foci: normative English polylingualism (across three grammatically distinct languages); the messiness and discontinuities of medieval manuscript production; drawing conclusions about historical audiences/literary communities on the basis of book-evidence; and finally, the Middle English poem Piers Plowman. In general, although all the essays here arrive at broad conclusions, their point is other. The essays exemplify methods of study, the identification of problems and the recognition of tools appropriate or helpful in addressing them. Perhaps particularly the volume gestures toward a range of skills appropriate for the task; these range from narrow observation of book-production techniques to bringing a local historical record to bear on an individual volume or group of them. New & Used
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What Reviewers Are Saying
'Patient Reading constitutes a major
contribution to book history. It also offers a sustained reflection on the
reading practices that might best illuminate medieval texts [...] Patient Reading presents a rich
compendium of material, the fruit of Hanna's own "patient . . . absorption" in
the medieval archive (8). It also makes some stimulating and consequential
claims about the creative, polylingual, exegetical practices that gave shape to
medieval sermons and to medieval poems.'
Alastair Bennett, Modern
Philology 'Running alongside the erudition of this volume, there is a basic humility and unashamed bookishness that again points towards Hanna's implicit ideological position that historical literacy scholarship is worthwhile in and of itself.'
Ian Felce, Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 'These separate studies are thick with historical and cultural detail, descriptive analysis, and codicological argument, and signpost many untrodden avenues for further research while also offering precise and informative discoveries.'
Margaret Connolly, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
contribution
reading practices that might best illuminate medieval texts [...] Patient Reading presents a rich
compendium of material, the fruit of Hanna's own "patient . . . absorption" in
the medieval archive (8). It also makes some stimulating and consequentia
claims about the creative, polylingual,
medieval sermons and to medieval poems.'
Alastair Bennett, Modern
Philology 'Running alongside the erudition of this volume, there is a basic humility and unashamed bookishness that again points towards Hanna's implicit ideological position that historical literacy scholarship is worthwhile in and of itself.'
Ian Felce, Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 'These separate studies are thick with historical and cultural detail, descriptive analysis, and codicologica
Margaret Connolly, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies