TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richardson,Malcolm
TI  - Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London
T2  - The History of the Book Series
SN  - 9781317323983
AV  - Z105.R53 2010 
U1  - 411.7094210902 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Paleography, English--History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Pirates and Pens -- 1 London Middle-Class Writing: The Institutional Bases -- 2 'An Inextricable Labyrinth': The Major Genres of Civic Life -- 3 English Middle-Class Writing in the Earlier Fifteenth Century: The Vernacular Letters -- 4 Women's Letters and Men's Books -- Conclusions and Speculations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
N2  - Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves. Whilst previous studies have tended to focus on middle-class literary reading patterns, this study examines writing skills separately both from reading skills and from literature
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