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Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader FICTION / Religious emphasizing how Latina youth themselvesAn investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for a medieval Christian reading public Scorn, Shame, and the Simple Reader reveals how a cluster of rarely studied guides to the religious life helped forge a new identity in late medieval England. Lifting passages wholesale from texts originally intended only for holy virgins walled up in cells, these treatises turned Christlike shame and