Uniform Title 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.

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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

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Granby, Main Library - Adult	028.9 HIS	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	028.9094 H673H	Check Shelf

Description	viii, 478 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Studies in print culture and the history of the book
	Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-471) and index.
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.
Summary	Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Subject	Books and reading -- Europe -- History.
	Written communication -- Europe -- History.
	Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
	Written communication. (OCoLC)fst01181697
	Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	History (form) (NL-LeOCL)088143147
Added Author	Cavallo, Guglielmo.
	Chartier, Roger, 1945-
	Cochrane, Lydia G.
ISBN	9781558492134 (alk. paper)
	1558492135 (alk. paper)
	9781558494114 (paperback)
	1558494111 (paperback)

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