Medievalists.net » Florilegia http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Flowers for the Book-binder’s Wife: An Investigation of Florilegia and Early Modern Women’s Writing http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/22/flowers-for-the-book-binders-wife-an-investigation-of-florilegia-and-early-modern-womens-writing/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/22/flowers-for-the-book-binders-wife-an-investigation-of-florilegia-and-early-modern-womens-writing/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:59:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31152 To an early modern, nothing could be fully learned through a “hands off” approach. Heidi Brayman Hackel corroborates this with her book, Reading Material. Critical to early modern thoughts on comprehension was “taking note,” a phrasing that carried the double implication of both noticing and annotating...

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