The Book as Material Intercessor in Anne de Bretagne’s Library: Women’s Affective Reading in Late Medieval France

Abstract

This article explores the materiality of the book in four codices owned by Anne de Bretagne at the end of the Middle Ages. Shedding light on the reading practices promoted by the library of one particular late-medieval female patron, I also provide a way into thinking more broadly about the ways in which reading practices were modelled to female readers by the secular and religious texts and images in their manuscripts.