Modalities of literacy and Anglo-Saxon interpretive cultures
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[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation focuses on the reception of Anglo-Saxon texts in both Anglo-Saxon and Reformation England. Its four case studies span developments in media history, and begins the task of creating an archive of early interpretive cultures -- be they based around an oral interpreter, a manuscript codex, or a printed book. To that end I adapt the influential concept of the "interpretive community" to the material realities that informed the reception of Anglo-Saxon texts. Consulting literary and visual representations of reading as well as codicological and bibliographical evidence, I counter determinist thinking about the relationship between media and culture.
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