A history of reading in the West - ECU Libraries Catalog

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

Other author/creator	Cavallo, Guglielmo.
Other author/creator	Chartier, Roger, 1945-
Other author/creator	Cochrane, Lydia G.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Description	viii, 478 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Books and reading--Europe --History. Written communication--Europe --History.

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)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	Z1003.3.E85 S7613 1999	✔ Available	Place Hold