This collection of essays, the third in an integrated series of three and focused on the literacies of nuns in medieval Europe, brings together specialists working on diverse geographical areas to create a dialogue about the Latin and vernacular texts nuns read, wrote, and excha…
Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by the 'Index of Forbidden Books', figure prominently in secular definitions of freedom. To be intellectually free is to enjoy access to knowledge unimpeded by any religious authority. But how would the history of …
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Textual Nationalism and Oral Culture; 2. Education and the Rise of Literacy; 3. W. B. Yeats and the Irish Reader; 4. Contending Textualities; 5. Censorship; Afterword - Joycean Transformations; Appendix - W. B. Yeats' Irish Canon…
"The emergence of an Irish 'common reader' in the nineteenth century had significant implications for the evolution of Irish cultural nationalism. The rise of literacy rates prompted a cultural crisis, with nationalists fearing that the beneficiaries of mass education were being…
