‎Salas, Nancy H Peyton, Donna D‎
‎Reading‎

‎Performative Religious Reading in the Low Countries (c. 1470-1550)‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 392, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:29 b/w, 54 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503613765.‎

‎Summary 'Use your imagination, visualize details, activate your emotions and employ your body.' Late medieval devotional literature demanded readers to actively involve themselves in mental and/or physical performances, in which they were to take up the role of witness or even participant in the story. This practice of performative reading gives readers the opportunity to identify with Christ and grow in their spiritual life. This monograph studies the variety of techniques in late medieval devotional books that help readers to engage in performative reading. The source material concerns mostly printed material produced in the Low Countries in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Challenging the persistent emphasis on the Reformation in research on the early sixteenth century, the results of this study reveal that older medieval devotional mechanisms continued to be enthusiastically embraced by ambitious, active lay men and women. The printing press ensured performative reading practices were widely disseminated, allowing the laity to actively participate in religious culture. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1. The Performance of Reading 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Devotional Reading 1.3 Sources 1.4 Methods and Structure of the Study Chapter 2. Space 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Settings 2.3 The Stage of Reading 2.4 The Space of the Book Page 2.5 Spaces in Books: Narrative Settings 2.6 Appropriating Sacred Space 2.7 Conclusions Chapter 3. Body 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Reading with the Body 3.3 Using the Body: Gestures, Postures, and Movement 3.4 Emotions 3.5 The Senses 3.6 Bridging the Experiential Gap 3.7 Conclusions Chapter 4. Mind 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Imagination 4.3 Memory 4.4 Multimodal Reading 4.5 Materialising the Abstract: Allegory and Metaphor 4.6 Reading without the Book 4.7 Conclusions Conclusions Appendix: Primary Sources Bibliography‎

‎Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2004 Hardback, XVIII+193 p., 1 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503513966.‎

‎It is not surprising that the development of the internet and related electronic technologies has coincided with an academic interest in the history of reading. Using and transmitting texts in new ways, scholars have become increasingly aware of the precise ways in which manuscripts and printed books transmitted texts to early modern readers. This volume collects nine essays on reading and literacy in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Topics include: the function of marginalia in vernacular medieval manuscripts; the trope of reading in the fourteenth century; the definition of literacy in early modern England; marginalia and reading practices in early modern Italy; revision of medieval texts in the Renaissance; the prevalence of translated French poetry in sixteenth-century England; the use of poems as props in the plays of Shakespeare; the private reading of the playscripts of masques; and early-modern women's reading practices. These essays demonstrate the energy and excitement of the rapidly developing field of the history of reading. They will appeal to those interested in European cultural history, the transition from manuscript to print culture, the history of literacy, and the history of the book. New.‎

‎Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages,Instructing the Soul, Feeding the Spirit, and Awakening the Passion‎

‎, Brepols Publishers, 2013 Hardback, VI 308 p., 12 b/w ill. 15 colour ill., 1 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy(USML 25). ISBN 9782503545691.‎

‎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.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

‎Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages Instructing the Soul, Feeding the Spirit, and Awakening the Passion‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2013 Hardcover. VI 308 p., 12 b/w ill. 15 colour ill., 1 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503545691.‎

‎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. 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.<br>- St Jerome, 384 AD<br>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?.<br>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.<br>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.‎

‎Schwanenflugel P. J., Knapp N. F. The Psychology of Reading: Theory and Applic‎

‎Schwanenflugel P. J., Knapp N. F. The Psychology of Reading: Theory and Application In Russian /Shvanenflyugel P. Dzh., Knapp N. F. Psikhologiya chteniya: Teoriya i primenenie. Kharkiv Humanitarian Center 2022. Integrating cognitive, neuropsychological, and sociocultural approaches, this authoritative textbook explains the psychological processes involved in reading, and describes their application to educational practice. The book follows a clear sequence of development, from the impact of early family environments to the acquisition of literacy skills and the increasingly complex abilities required to recognize words, read fluency, expand vocabulary, and understand texts. It explores linguistic and cultural factors affecting differences in individual reading, psychological dimensions of reading motivation, and the personal and social benefits of reading. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb579b6f698f080baf.‎