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additional ms 37049
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Author_Jessica Brantley
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carthusian miscellany
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catholicism
christianity
closet drama
communal
community
contemplation
devotional
england
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faith
history
isolation
liturgy
medieval
meditation
michael camille
middle ages
monastery
monks
mysticism
nonfiction
pageantry
performance
piety
prayer
reading
religion
solitude
spectatorship
theater
wjt mitchell
worship
Product details
- ISBN 9780226071329
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2007
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Just as twenty-first-century technologies such as blogs and wikis have transformed the once-private act of reading into a public enterprise, devotional reading experiences in the Middle Ages were dependent upon an oscillation between the solitary and the communal. In "Reading in the Wilderness", Jessica Brantley uses tools from both literary criticism and art history to illuminate Additional MS 37049, an illustrated Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library. This revealing artifact, Brantley argues, closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medieval England. Drawing on the work of W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Camille, and others working at the image-text crossroads, "Reading in the Wilderness" addresses the manuscript's texts and illustrations to examine connections between reading and performance within the solitary monk's cell and outside. Brantley re-imagines the medieval codex as a site where the meanings of images and words are performed, both publicly and privately, in the act of reading.
Jessica Brantley is associate professor of English at Yale University.
