Singing the New Song : Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England.

COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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.

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