<p>‘<i>Patient Reading</i> constitutes a major
contribution to book history. It also offers a sustained reflection on the
reading practices that might best illuminate medieval texts […] <i>Patient Reading </i>presents a rich
compendium of material, the fruit of Hanna’s own “patient . . . absorption” in
the medieval archive (8). It also makes some stimulating and consequential
claims about the creative, polylingual, exegetical practices that gave shape to
medieval sermons and to medieval poems.’</p><p>Alastair Bennett, <i>Modern
Philology</i><br /></p>
'Running alongside the erudition of this volume, there is a basic humility and unashamed bookishness that again points towards Hanna's implicit ideological position that historical literacy scholarship is worthwhile in and of itself.' <br />Ian Felce, <i>Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen</i>
‘These separate studies are thick with historical and cultural detail, descriptive analysis, and codicological argument, and signpost many untrodden avenues for further research while also offering precise and informative discoveries.’
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Margaret Connolly, <em> Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies</em>