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A history of reading in the West

A history of reading in the West
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ISBN 0745630545 (softcover)
9780745630540 (softcover)
Uniform Title Histoire de la lecture dans le monde occidental. English
Title A history of reading in the West / edited by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
Publisher Cambridge : Polity Press, Oxford : Blackwell, 1999
Physical desc. viii, 478 pages ; 23 cm.
Note First published in France: Histoire de la lecture dans le monde occidental (Rome-Bari : Giuseppe Laterza & Figli Spa, and Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 1997.
First published in paperback 2003.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages [368]-461) and index.
Contents Introduction / Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier -- Archaic and Classical Greece: the invention of silent reading / Jesper Svenbro -- Between volumen and codex: reading in the Roman world / Guglielmo Cavallo -- Reading, copying and interpreting a text in the early Middle Ages / M.B. Parkes -- The scholastic model of reading / Jacqueline Hamesse -- Reading in the later Middle Ages / Paul Saenger -- Reading in the Jewish communities of Western Europe in the Middle Ages / Robert Bonfil -- The humanist as reader / Anthony Grafton -- Protestant reformations and reading / Jean-François Gilmont -- Reading and the Counter-Reformation / Dominique Julia -- Reading matter and 'popular' reading: from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century / Roger Chartier -- Was there a reading revolution at the end of the eighteenth century? / Reinhard Wittmann -- New readers in the nineteenth century: women, children, workers / Martyn Lyons -- Reading to read: a future for reading / Armando Petrucci.
Subject Books and reading -- Europe -- History
Written communication -- Europe -- History
Added name(s) Cavallo, Guglielmo editor
Chartier, Roger 1945- editor
Cochrane, Lydia G. translater
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