IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 320: Reconstructing Reading and Reception: Travels in Space, Place, and Imagination, c. 1350-1550
Monday 11 July 2005, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Tudor Studies, University of Kent |
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Organiser: | Elisabeth Salter, Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Tudor Studies, University of Kent |
Moderator/Chair: | Andrew F. Butcher, Aberystwyth University |
Paper 320-a | Reading the World in the 14th and 15th Centuries: Some Evidence from the Margins of Travellers' Accounts of India (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 320-b | '…to try my pen...': An Ethnography of Popular Reading Practices, c. 1450-1550 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities, Philosophy |
Paper 320-c | Translation and the Role of Vernacular Dialogue for the Transmission of Philosophical Ideas, c. 1400-1550 (Language: English) |
Abstract | This session is concerned with the reconstruction of reading practices and issues of reception in three different types of text and book, c. 1350-1550. O'Doherty examines the different kinds of reception for two 14th-century accounts of India as evidenced by two forms of marginal writing: scribal direction and reader annotation. Richards examines the conceptual spaces provided by dialogic texts such as [???] for the transformation of prhilosophical ideas, c. 1400-1550. Salter examines the concept 'oralisation', as a means of reconstructing popular reading practices amongst emergent literate groups using widely available devotional literatures, manuscript and print. |