This book demonstrates that received views on orality and literacy underestimate the importance of public reading in the late Middle Ages.

This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditio

Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves

First full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of the late middl

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medi