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ABSTRACT A study of the late-medieval owners and readers of texts originally addressed to female audiences raises a multitude of questions about the relationships between text and readers and, in particular, the influence of gender on reading. The patterns of manuscript ownership, in particular, reveal a "gap" between the intended audience and the actual readers of these texts. Ownership inscriptions suggest that texts which were originally addressed to female audiences rapidly found their way into the hands of a wide range of readers, which included both men and women and ranged from secluded anchoresses to laypersons who were very much involved in the social and political climate of their day. The wide variations in readership show that medieval women were not relegated to the marginal wastelands in their devotional reading; nor were their reading habits and materials substantially different from many men, particularly laymen. This is not to say that a "gender gap" did not exist -- rather, that the gendered attitudes and patterns of literacy are more complex than has previously been recognized.

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