TY - SER AU - Albrecht Classen CY - New York, NY LA - English N1 - Contents: Introduction / Albrecht Classen Varying Degrees of Light: Bonaventure and the Medieval Book of Nature / Ashlynn K. Pai Reading That Transforms: Virgil's Hero Reborn in Twelfth Century Vernacular Representations / Raymond Cormier Reading and the Book: Frame and Story in the Old French Dolopathos / Penny Simons The Book and the Power of Reading in Medieval High German Literature: Mystery, Enlightenment, Spirituality, and Love / Albrecht Classen Book Metaphors in the Textual Community of the Ancrene Wisse / Jean-Marie Kauth The Language of the Text: Authorship and Textuality in Pearl, The Divine Comedy, and Piers Plowman / Burt Kimmelman Building Christian Narrative: The Rhetoric of Knowledge, Revelation, and Interpretation in Libro de Apolonio / Patricia E. Grieve Chaucer's Literate Characters Reading Their Texts: Interpreting Infinite Regression, or the Narcissus Syndrome / Jean E. Jost Story, Picture, and Reading in Wynkyn de Worde's Vitas Patrum / Sue Ellen Holbrook Reading the Virgin Reader / David Linton Maria Legens Maria Legere: St. Mary as an Ideal Reader and St. Mary as a Textbook / Winfried Frey PB - Garland PP - New York, NY PY - 1999 SN - 9780815332305 EP - 308 pp. TI - The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages ER -