TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krug,Rebecca L.
TI  - Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England 
SN  - 9781501731822
AV  - PR275.W6 K78 2002
U1  - 820.9/9287/0902 21
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Middle English, 1100-1500
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Women
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. HUSBANDS AND SONS: Margaret Paston's Letter-Writing --; 2. MARGARET BEAUFORT'S LITERATE PRACTICE: Service and Self-Inscription --; 3. CHILDREN OF GOD: Women Lollards at Norwich --; 4. READING AT SYON ABBEY --; Conclusion --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Rebecca Krug argues that in the later Middle Ages, people defined themselves in terms of family relationships but increasingly saw their social circumstances as being connected to the written word. Complex family dynamics and social configurations motivated women to engage in text-based activities. Although not all or even the majority of women could read and write, it became natural for women to think of writing as a part of everyday life.Reading Families looks at the literate practice of two individual women, Margaret Paston and Margaret Beaufort, and of two communities in which women were central, the Norwich Lollards and the Bridgettines at Syon Abbey. The book begins with Paston's letters, which were written at her husband's request, and ends with devotional texts that describe the spiritual daughterhood of the Bridgettine readers.Scholars often assume that medieval women's participation in literate culture constituted a rejection of patriarchal authority. Krug maintains, however, that for most women learning to engage with the written word served as a practical response to social changes and was not necessarily a revolutionary act
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731822
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