A history of reading in the West / edited by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
| Other author | Cavallo, Guglielmo. |
| Other author | Chartier, Roger, 1945- |
| Other author | Cochrane, Lydia G. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. |
| Description | viii, 478 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Storia della lettura nel mondo occidentale. English. |
| Series | Studies in print culture and the history of the book Studies in print culture and the history of the book. ^A388034 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Local note | Little-325439--305131025842Y |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-471) and index. |
| LCCN | 99022447 |
| ISBN | 1558492135 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | Z1003.3.E85 S7613 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |