Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) Book

This original study explores the importance of the concept of habitus - that is, the set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior and taste that result from internalizing culture or objective social structures - in the medieval imagination.Read More

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    Argues that the adaptation of habitus for a universal audience supported the development of a vernacular reading public.

  • Book Description

    Examining the concept of habitus - acquired patterns of thought, behaviour and taste that result from internalising culture or objective social structures - Katharine Breen argues that the adaptation of elite, clerical forms of habitus for lay audiences established the conceptual foundations for a reading public in medieval England.

  • 0521199220
  • 9780521199223
  • Breen Katharine
  • 29 April 2010
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 300
  • 1
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