Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience Book

	Introduction : reading and the laity	3
Pt. I	Inscribed readers : the invention of the lay reader in text and image	17
1	Reading between the lines : responses to lay literacy in late medieval manuscripts	21
2	Lay readers in Guillaume de Machaut's Voir dit	45
Pt. II	Intermediary readers and their shaping of Machaut's Voir dit	77
3	Instructing readers : metatext and the table of contents as sites of meditation in BnF, MS fr. 1584	88
4	Illustrations and the shape of reading : pictorial programs in BnF, MS fr. 1584 and MSS fr. 22545-22546	106
5	Layout and the staging of performance in BnF, MS fr. 9221	127
Pt. III	Inventive readers and the struggle for control	147
6	Eustache Deschamps as Machaut's reader : staking out authority in the master('s) text	152
7	'Nouvelete' gaires ne gist' : Jean Froissart's reinvention of the author-reader relationship	170
8	Reading and salvation : the case of Pierpont Morgan, MS M 396	190
	Conclusion : the residual text, the fading of the author, and the role of technology	211
App. I	Pictorial content for the Voir dit in MSS A, F, and Pm	221
App. II	Pm manuscript alterations	225