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"...this brave project is fascinating..." - Alison Frazier, Libraries & Culture
"...substantial in scope...it calls on various disciplines to weave a large and intriguing argument about the understanding of reading from the High to the Late Middle Ages." - History:Reviews of New Books
"Amtower succeeds in showing a sophisticated, varied, and often-ironic sense of reading as a metaphor for all manner of comprehension in late-medieval art and literature." - Choice
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Book Title: Engaging Words
Book Subtitle: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages
Authors: Laurel Amtower
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62998-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-23383-9Published: 18 December 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-63000-4Published: 18 December 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-62998-5Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 243
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Literature, Cultural Studies, Social History, Classical and Antique Literature