For a long time scholars have generally shared the belief that late medieval authors - particularly in England and especially Chaucer - wrote for private readers. This book challenges that view and current orthodoxies in orality-literacy theory. It assembles and analyses in depth, for the first time, an overwhelming mass of evidence that in both Britain and France from the mid-fourteenth to the late-fifteenth century, literate, elite audiences continued to prefer public reading (aloud in groups) to private reading. This book offers the first sustained critique of Walter Ong's Orality and...
For a long time scholars have generally shared the belief that late medieval authors - particularly in England and especially Chaucer - wrote for priv...
As a family of five, even with two income we were facing serious financial hardship, especially after out 3rd son was born. My wife had some pregnancy related complication which our health insurance didn't cover and I ended up taking a huge personal loan to pay for it.
Since then every month we were falling short to make the ends meet. I even took a second job but that didn't help much at all, till one day a good friend shared his journey into frugal living life style and...
