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Throughout the Middle Ages, the number of female readers was far greater than is commonly assumed. D.H. Green shows that, after clerics & monks, religious women were the main bearers of written culture. Laywomen played a vital part in the process whereby the expansion of literacy brought reading from religious institutions into homes.Green, D. H. is the author of 'Women Readers in the Middle Ages ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521879422 and ISBN 0521879426.
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