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Article: Rebecca Krug, Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 2004
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Rebecca Krug, Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002). ix + 238 pp. ISBN 0-80143924-8. 30.50 [pounds sterling].
As the study of medieval women has become mainstream in recent years, a canon of medieval women's writing has emerged. In Reading Families Rebecca Krug resists and contextualizes that canon by defining the more evasive and perhaps more interesting topic of women's 'literate practices'. Writing is of course a literate practice, but one which here takes its place amongst several other forms of engagement with texts, including reading, dictating, patronizing, commissioning, and ...