id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt dj52w378d4d Hannah Zdansky Converting Romance: The Spiritual Significance of a Secular Genre in Medieval France, England, Wales, and Ireland 1904 .txt text/plain 354 15 53 In order to understand the reception of these texts, the use of miscellanies, and to better grasp medieval reading practices, I show that we have to do two things: pay attention to material context and be open to questioning the secularity of medieval romances. My dissertation responds to the work of Derek Pearsall, John Thompson, Julia Boffey, Phillipa Hardman, Susanna Fein, Murray Evans, and others regarding miscellanies and the influence of manuscript contexts on reception. cache/dj52w378d4d.txt txt/dj52w378d4d.txt