This book examines how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of information. Considering the reciprocal relationship between the domestic experience and its cultural expression, contributors provide a fresh illustration of the imaginative scope of the late-medieval home and its centrality to cultural production.

Glenn D. Burger is Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY and Dean of Graduate Studies at Queens College, CUNY
Rory G. Critten is Lecturer in Old and Middle English at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

1 Introduction: the home life of information - Glenn D. Burger and Rory G. Critten
2 Knowledge production in the late-medieval married household: the case of Le Menagier de Paris - Glenn D. Burger
3 Knowing incompetence: elite women in Caxton's Book of the Knight of the Tower - Elliot Kendall
4 Renovating the household through affective invention in manuscripts Ashmole 61 and Advocates 19.3.1 - Myra Seaman
5 The Christmas drama of the household of St John's College, Oxford - Elisabeth Dutton
6 Household song in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale - Sarah Stanbury
7 Field knowledge in gentry households: 'pears on a willow'? - Nadine Kuipers
8 Domestic ideals: healing, reading, and perfection in the late-medieval household - Michael Leahy
9 Macrocosm and microcosm in household manuscript Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.2.38 - Raluca Radulescu
10 The multilingual English household in a European perspective: London, British Library MS Harley 2253 and the traffic of texts - Rory G. Critten
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