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A history of reading in the West
Storia della lettura nel mondo occidentale. English.
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- Creator
- edited by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- viii, 478 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781558492134, 1558492135
- OCLC
- ocm40881666
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [443]-471) and index.
- 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 reformation 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