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Author:

Storia della lettura nel mondo occidentale. English.

Title:

A history of reading in the West / edited by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

viii, 478 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Books and reading--Europe--History.
Written communication--Europe--History.
Lezen.
Leesgewoonten.

Other Authors:

Cavallo, Guglielmo.
Chartier, Roger, 1945-
Cochrane, Lydia G.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-471) and index.

Contents:

Reading to read: a future for reading / Armando Petrucci. 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.

Series:

Studies in print culture and the history of the book

ISBN:

9781558492134 (alk. paper)
1558492135 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

99022447

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

IAOX771 -- State Library of Iowa (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)