Objects of affection: The book and the household in late medieval England (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

✍ Scribed by Myra Seaman

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 298
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: objects, assemblages, affects, ecologies
Objects of instruction
Objects of mercy
Objects of correction
Testimonial objects
Objects of liberation
Epilogue: fishing for answers
Appendix: Contents of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61
Bibliography
Index

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