TY  - GEN
AU  - Cochrane, Lydia G.
AU  - Chartier, Roger,
AU  - Cavallo, Guglielmo
TI  - A history of reading in the West
SN  - 0745619363
AV  - Z1003.5.E85 S7613 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Written communication
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Books and reading
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-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 reformations and reading / Jean-Fran­cois 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
ER  -