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a usually formal oral communication to an audience

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The strategic placement of the invitation at this point serves several purposes: it allows for a short break to clarify the key elements presented thus far, for not everybody may have heard of Sicily, or the family relations of the characters may need repetition; or it simply may serve to provide a recapitulation, since people's attention at the beginning tends to be low, and it is not hard to imagine members of the public arriving late for the prelection with the corresponding distraction for the audience.

Reading romance in late medieval England: the case of the Middle English Ipomedon

(20) Prelection of texts of this kind could be affective as well as instructional.

Verbal texture and wordplay in the York Cycle

Coleman, borrowing a term from John of Salisbury, dubs this kind of reading aloud 'prelection'.

Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France

An especially fitting occasion for the prelection of Handlyng Synne would be the arrival of pilgrims.

Handling pilgrims: Robert Mannyng and the Gilbertine cult

(11) Or, in Tilliette's words: "Elle est composee en majeure partie de savantes et pointilleuse prelections d'Aristote." Vita di Schelling, 716.

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