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 |