medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture May be, the following literature helps a bit. By the way, some of the Moralized Bibles from the first half of the 13th c, for the French kings were also written in French... . Bäuml, Franz "Varieties and Consequences of Medieval Literacy and Illiteracy," Speculum 55 (1980): 237-264. Susan Groag Bell, "Medieval Women Book Owners: Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture," Signs (Journal of Women in Culture and Society) 7 (1982): 742-768. Camille, Michael "Seeing and Reading: Some Visual Implications of Medieval Literacy and Illiteracy," AH 8 (1985): 26-49. Saenger, Paul “Books of Hours and the Reading Habits of the Late Middle Ages,” Scrittura e Civiltà 9 (1985): 239-270. Thompson, James Westfall The Literacy of the Laity in the Middle Ages (Berkeley, 1920). Vaucher, André The Laity in the Middle Ages. Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices. Edited by Daniel E. Bornstein, translated by Margery J. Schneider. (University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame and London, 1993). Originally: Les laïcs au Moyen Age: Pratiques et expériences religieuses. (Les Édition du Cerf, Paris 1987). Joanna E. Ziegler Performance And Transformation: New Approaches to Late Medieval Spirituality; edited by Mary A. Suydam and Joanna E. Ziegler. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999). Cheers, Jens T. Wollesen ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html