Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England
In Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word. Where previous studies have described how writing comes to supplant oral forms of communication or how it objectifies relations of power formerly transacted through ritual and ceremony, Zieman shifts the critical gaze to the ritual performance of written texts in the liturgy—effectively changing the focus from...
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In Singing the New Song, Katherine Zieman examines the institutions and practices of the liturgy as central to changes in late medieval English understandings of the written word.
List of Illustrations viiPreface ixEx Ore Infantium: Literacy and Elementary Educational Practices in Late Medieval England 1Singing the New Song: Literacy, Clerical Identity, and the Discourse of Choral Community 40Legere et non Intellegere Negligere Est: The Politics of Understanding 73Extragrammatical Literacies and the Latinity of the Laity 114"Pe Lomes Pat y Labore With": Vernacular Poetics, Clergie, and the Repertoire of Reading and Singing in Piers Plowman 150Reading, Singing, and Publication in the Canterbury Tales 181Notes 211Bibliography 263Index 285
