D. H. Green, Women Readers in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007. Pp. xi + 296. Cloth Price £ 50.00.

• Julia Boffey

Women Readers in the Middle Ages offers exactly what its title suggests: a wideranging survey of the forms in which women engaged with books and were depicted doing so, based on evidence from nearly ten centuries (c. 600 – c. 1500) from France, England, and the Germanic countries of Europe. It is structured so as best to confront the difficulties posed by that evidence, beginning with a general overview of medieval forms of reading, proceeding to a survey of the various categories into which it is possible to divide women readers, and concluding with a discussion of the forms in which women might have engaged with literature without necessarily having ‘read’ it. Green explores with considerable care what forms literacy might have taken in the Middle Ages, and his discussion is likely to be as valuable for its method and for the questions it articulates as it is for the evidence it presents.

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