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Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England

Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England

Seaman, Myra

Hardcover

Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 152614381X
ISBN13: 9781526143815
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Mar 9 2021
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book's pages - human and nonhuman, tangible and intangible - collaborate with its readers then and now, this book addresses the manuscript's material appeal in the ways it binds itself to different cultural, historical and material environments. In doing so it traces the affective literacy training that the manuscript provided its late-medieval English household, whose diverse inhabitants are incorporated into the ecology of the book itself as it fashions spiritually generous and socially mindful household members.

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