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Article: Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2004
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Rebecca Krug. Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England.
Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. ix + 238 pp. index. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8014-3924-8.
While it has become usual to construe literacy broadly and consider evidence of book ownership and patronage in discussions of women and literacy, Rebecca Krug's analysis of women's literate practices opens up new understanding of ways family relationships shaped women's responses to the challenges of an increasingly text-based society in fifteenth-century England. Krug grounds her book on the idea that literacy is multifaceted and should be understood in the ...