This original study explores the importance of the concept of habitus that is, the set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior and taste that result from internalizing culture or objective social structures in the medieval imagination. Beginning by examining medieval theories of habitus in a general sense, Katharine Breen goes on to investigate the relationships between habitus, language, and Christian virtue. While most medieval pedagogical theorists regarded the habitus of Latin grammar as the gateway to a generalized habitus of virtue, reformers increasingly experimented with vernacular...