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Driving the Night Away: Early Chapters in the History of Reading

Published:2023-11-01 Issue: Volume:36 Page:88-101
ISSN:0709-5201
Container-title:Florilegium
language:en
Short-container-title:Florilegium

Author:

Taylor Andrew¹²

Affiliation:

1. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2. Past President, Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes

Abstract

Geoffrey Chaucer, and the scene in the Book of the Duchess when he falls asleep reading a book, is often taken as a case study in the history of reading and the transition to silent, private reading. Moving from Chaucer’s own writing, this talk ventures into the economics of paper, manuscript layout and production, and pastoral education to consider the plausibility of Chaucer’s reading in bed.

Publisher

University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)

Subject

General Engineering

Link

https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/flor-36.005

Reference49 articles.

1. Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (New York: Viking, 1996), 153–54.

2. Unless otherwise stated, all citations of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works are taken from Larry D. Benson, ed. The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987) (lines are given parenthetically within the text).

3. James Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953), 690.

4. Jean Froissart, Le Paradis d’amour, L’Orloge amoreus, ed. Peter F. Dembowski (Geneva: Droz, 1986), lines 1–2.

5. Large sections of the Chronicles are most conveniently available in Jean Froissart, Chroniques, ed. Peter Ainsworth, George T. Diller, and Alberto Varvaro, 2 vols. (Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 2001–4); Chronicles, trans. Geoffrey Brereton (London: Penguin, 1968); Peter Ainsworth and Godfried Croenen, eds. The Online Froissart: A Digital Edition of the Chronicles of Jean Froissart, vol. 1.5 (Sheffield, UK: HRIOnline, 2013), https://www.dhi.ac.uk/onlinefroissart/.