Household knowledges in late-medieval England and France (eBook)

Glenn D. Burger is Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY and Dean of Graduate Studies at Queens College, CUNY Rory G. Critten is Lecturer in Old and Middle English at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

1 Introduction: the home life of information – Glenn D. Burger and Rory G. Critten
2 Knowledge production in the late-medieval married household: the case of Le Menagier de Paris – Glenn D. Burger
3 Knowing incompetence: elite women in Caxton’s Book of the Knight of the Tower – Elliot Kendall
4 Renovating the household through affective invention in manuscripts Ashmole 61 and Advocates 19.3.1 – Myra Seaman
5 The Christmas drama of the household of St John’s College, Oxford – Elisabeth Dutton
6 Household song in Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale – Sarah Stanbury
7 Field knowledge in gentry households: ‘pears on a willow’? – Nadine Kuipers
8 Domestic ideals: healing, reading, and perfection in the late-medieval household – Michael Leahy
9 Macrocosm and microcosm in household manuscript Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.2.38 – Raluca Radulescu
10 The multilingual English household in a European perspective: London, British Library MS Harley 2253 and the traffic of texts – Rory G. Critten
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