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Reading families : women's literate practice in late medieval England by Krug, Rebecca is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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"Reading Families looks at the literate practice of two individual women, Margaret Paston and Margaret Beaufort, and of two communities in which women were central, the Norwich Lollards and the Bridgettines at Syon Abbey. The book begins with Paston's letters, which were written at her husband's request, and ends with devotional texts that describe the spiritual daughterhood of the Bridgettine readers."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Author
- Krug, Rebecca
- Publisher
- Ithaca: Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801439247
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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