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.