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"Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page." (St Jerome, 384 AD). With these words, the Church Father Jerome exhorted the young Eustochium to find on the sacred page the spiritual nourishment that would give her the strength to live a life of chastity and to keep her monastic vows. His call to read does not stand alone. Books and reading have always played a pivotal role in early and medieval Christianity, often defined as ‘a religion of the book’.A second important stage in the development of the ‘religion of the book’ can be attested in the late Middle Ages, when religious reading was no longer the exclusive right of men and women living in solitude and concentrating on prayer and meditation. Changes in the religious landscape and the birth of new religious movements transformed the medieval town into a privileged area of religious activity. Increasing literacy opened the door to a new and wider public of lay readers. This seminal transformation in the late medieval cultural horizon saw the growing importance of the vernacular, the cultural and religious emancipation of the laity, and the increasing participation of lay people in religious life and activities.This volume presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to religious reading and reading techniques in a lay environment within late medieval textual, social, and cultural transformations.

Literature --- Religious studies --- anno 500-1499 --- Religion and religious literature --- Religious literature --- Laity --- Religion et littérature religieuse --- Littérature religieuse --- Laïcat --- History --- Distribution --- Books and reading --- Histoire --- Diffusion --- Livres et lecture --- 248 "04/14" --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--Middeleeuwen --- Religion et littérature religieuse --- Littérature religieuse --- Laïcat --- To 1500 --- Religieuze literatuur--Verspreiding --- Religion and religious literature - History - To 1500 --- Religious literature - Distribution - History - To 1500 --- Laity - Books and reading - History - To 1500 --- Bible as literature

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"Although the Middle English texts broadly categorized as 'devotional literature' have received considerable scholarly attention in recent years, much work remains to be done on the cultural meanings and textual transformations of vernacular religious writing during the later medieval period and into the sixteenth century. During these years, popular (but still little-studied) late medieval works such as the Pore Caitif circulated in varied forms amid changing circumstances: the expansion of audiences for Middle English texts, the emergence and persecution of Lollardy, attempts at ecclesiastical censorship, the advent of printing, and the Henrician Reformation. How did Middle English religious texts answer changing cultural and practical needs and the requirements of orthodoxy? How did older texts find new readers; how did these readers alter and deploy them? This collection capitalizes on widespread current interest in these questions, gathering original essays that analyze the many forms, meanings, and legacies of Middle English religious writing." --

Old English literature --- Christian spirituality --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 400-499 --- Europe --- Religious literature, English --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Religion and literature --- Transmission of texts --- Books and reading --- Littérature religieuse anglaise --- Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Religion et littérature --- Transmission de textes --- Livres et lecture --- History and criticism. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- 091 =20 --- 091:2 --- 820 "04/14" --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Godsdienst. Theologie --- Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen --- Christian literature, English (Middle). --- Religion and literature. --- Religious literature, English. --- Transmission of texts. --- To 1500. --- England. --- 820 "04/14" Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen --- 091:2 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Godsdienst. Theologie --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Littérature religieuse anglaise --- Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Religion et littérature --- Religious literature [English ] --- History and criticism --- Christian literature [English ] (Middle) --- England --- To 1500 --- Christianity