Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Ex ore infantium: Literacy and Elementary Educational Practices in Late Medieval England -- 2 Singing the New Song: Literacy, Clerical Identity, and the Discourse of Choral Community -- 3 Legere et non intellegere negligere est: The Politics of Understanding -- 4 Extragrammatical Literacies and the Latinity of the Laity -- 5 "Þe lomes þat y labore with": Vernacular Poetics, Clergie, and the Repertoire of Reading and Singing in Piers Plowman -- 6 Reading, Singing, and Publication in The Canterbury Tales -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index
