id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt cf95j96252r Katy Michelle Wright-Bushman Reading Lyric before Lyric: English Religious Poetry among Its Late Medieval Readers 2014 .txt text/plain 367 9 20 In narratives like The Storie of Asneth, we see this understanding of the place of verse within religious practice confirmed through the literary construction of a lay, female penitential subject performing religious lyric. I argue that through both the reading practices in which these texts engage their readers and the construction of the imagined reader within them, as much as through their content, religious lyrics were read to effect ethical, affective, volitional, and epistemic change in a growing array of medieval readers. cache/cf95j96252r.txt txt/cf95j96252r.txt