Bookcraft

Bookcraft is the body or writings that is read for its own sake, rather than for knowledge. This can be tales, songs, plays or many things.

The earliest English bookcraft is in tales like Beowulf or Layamon's Brut, though there are also songs by Caedmon. Even books anent the eretide are sometimes held to be bookcraft, with Bede's Church Eretide of the English Folk being foremost among them.