IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1006: Reading as Journeying: Devotional Manuscripts and their Readers, c.1400-c.1500
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Janet Gunning, Department of English / Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Rees Jones, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 1006-a | Reading Communities and Pious Identities: Some Evidence from Late Medieval Devotional Anthologies (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1006-b | Emotional Journeys: Virtuous Reading Practice in Middle English Devotional Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety |
| Paper 1006-c | Silently Speaking: Evidence for Experiences of Popular Devotional Reading, c.1400-1550 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | Moss's paper will reflect on late medieval pious identities, using evidence from devotional anthologies which combine orthodox and reformist or Lollard-leaning material, such as London, Westminster School MS 3. It will ask what this evidence might tell us about reading communities and the devotional concerns of late medieval readers. Gunning's paper will explore theories of reading practice contained in Middle English devotional literature, and consider the ways in which affective devotional reading was intended to contribute instrumentally to the acquisition of virtue in the reader. Salter's paper will be concerned with devotional lyrics, poems, and prayers largely from the 15th century. It will explore the evidence such texts provide for the connections medieval readers may have made between speaking, silently reading, and listening. |