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Author: Ralph Hanna, III (Keble College (United Kingdom))
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Imprint: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781789628081
ISBN 10: 1789628083
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 November 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'Patient Reading constitutes a major contribution to book history. It also offers a sustained reflection on the reading practices that might best illuminate medieval texts [...] Patient Reading presents a rich compendium of material, the fruit of Hanna's own patient . . . absorption in the medieval archive (8). It also makes some stimulating and consequential claims about the creative, polylingual, exegetical practices that gave shape to medieval sermons and to medieval poems.' Alastair Bennett, Modern Philology 'Running alongside the erudition of this volume, there is a basic humility and unashamed bookishness that again points towards Hanna's implicit ideological position that historical literacy scholarship is worthwhile in and of itself.' Ian Felce, Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 'These separate studies are thick with historical and cultural detail, descriptive analysis, and codicological argument, and signpost many untrodden avenues for further research while also offering precise and informative discoveries.' Margaret Connolly, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
'Running alongside the erudition of this volume, there is a basic humility and unashamed bookishness that again points towards Hanna's implicit ideological position that historical literacy scholarship is worthwhile in and of itself.' Ian Felce, Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 'Patient Reading constitutes a major contribution to book history. It also offers a sustained reflection on the reading practices that might best illuminate medieval texts [...] Patient Reading presents a rich compendium of material, the fruit of Hanna's own patient . . . absorption in the medieval archive (8). It also makes some stimulating and consequential claims about the creative, polylingual, exegetical practices that gave shape to medieval sermons and to medieval poems.' Alastair Bennett, Modern Philology
Author Information
Ralph Hanna is Professor of Palaeography (Emeritus) and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow, former Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute (Harvard University), and winner of the British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize for English Language 2015. His many books with Liverpool University Press include John Ridewall, Fulgentius metaforalis (2023), Looking at Medieval Books: Learning to See (2023), Robert Holcot, exegete (2021) and Malachy the Irishman, On Poison (2020).
