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11 janvier 2019
- handle: 10670/1.hgm77d
- isbn: 9781783743131
- eisbn: 9791036516641
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history hagiography English translation anthology Anglo-Norman literature medieval culture grammar and glosses letters homiletic LIT004130 Medieval & Renaissance Studies DSBCiter ce document
Jane Bliss, « Doctors, Lawyers, and Writers », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.hgm77d
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This chapter gives a few examples of non-literary texts: these are envisaged as ‘for use’ rather than ‘for enjoyment’. It has already been remarked that the boundary between these two groups of material can be problematic, for example in religious literature where prayers are for use rather than leisure activity. However, because Dean’s catalogue barely touches the mass of material that was, for example, administrative and legal documentation, some recognition of the world outside ‘literature’...