Introduction, Albert Classen * Varying Degrees of Light: Bonaventure and the Medieval Book of Nature, Ashlynn K. Pai ; Reading That Transforms: Virgil's Hero Reborn on Twelfth Century Vernacular Representations, Raymond Cormier * Reading and the Book: Frame and Story in the Old French Dolopathos, Penny Simons * The Book and Reading in Medieval High German Literature, Albrecht Classen * Book Metaphors in the Textual Community, Jean-Marie Kauth * The Language of the Text: Authorship and Textuality in Pearl, The Divine Comedy , and Piers Plowman, Burt Kimmelman * Building Christian Narrative: The Rhetoric of Knowledge, Revelation and Interpretation in Libro de Apolonio, Patricia E. Grieve * Chaucer's Literate Characters Reading Their Texts: Interpreting Infinite Regression, or the Narcissus Syndrome, Jean E. Jost * Story, Picture, and Reading in Wynkyn de Worde's Vitas Patrum, Sue Ellen Holbrook * Reading the Virgin Reader, David Linton * Marie Legens-Maria Legere. St. Marys as an Ideal Reader and St. Mary as a Textbook, Winfred Frey