McGrady (French and Italian, Tulane U.) explores the construction of the lay reader and the lay reading experience in late medieval vernacular art and literature through a case study of
Guillaume (1300-77). In his 1363-65 collection Voir dit, she says, he combined poems and songs that invited oral delivery, with prose and elaborate pictorial programs that privileged a physical
encounter with the book. Her concern is not so much with any actual lay readers of the book, but with how they were imagined by him, his bookmakers, and subsequent readers. Annotation 穢2007
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