Singing the New Song : : Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England /

Singing the New Song : : Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England / / Katherine Zieman.

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In Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word. Where previous studies have described how writing comes to supplant oral forms of communication or how it objectifies re...

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Zieman, Katherine,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2008
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 6 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1 Ex ore infantium: Literacy and Elementary Educational Practices in Late Medieval England
  • 2 Singing the New Song: Literacy, Clerical Identity, and the Discourse of Choral Community
  • 3 Legere et non intellegere negligere est: The Politics of Understanding
  • 4 Extragrammatical Literacies and the Latinity of the Laity
  • 5 "Þe lomes þat y labore with": Vernacular Poetics, Clergie, and the Repertoire of Reading and Singing in Piers Plowman
  • 6 Reading, Singing, and Publication in The Canterbury Tales
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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