A history of reading in the West

Publishera s Note. Introduction: Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier. 1. Archaic and Classical Greece: The Invention of Silent Reading: Jesper Svenbro. 2. Between Volumen and Codex: Reading in the Roman World: Guglielmo Cavallo. 3. Reading, Copying and Interpreting a Text in the Early Middle Ages: M. B. Parkes. 4. The Scholastic Model of Reading: Jacqueline Hamesse. 5. Reading in the Later Middle Ages: Paul Saenger. 6. Reading in the Jewish Communities of Western Europe In the Middle Ages: Robert Bonfil. 7. The Humanist as Reader: Anthony Grafton. 8. Protestant Reformations and Reading: Jean--Francois Gilmont. 9. Reading and the Counter--Reformation: Dominique Julia. 10. Reading Matter and a Populara Reading: From the Renaissance to the Seventeenth Century: Roger Chartier. 11. Was there a Reading Revolution at the End of the Eighteenth Century? Reinhard Wittman. 12. New Readers in the Nineteenth Century: Women, Children, Workers: Martyn Lyons. 13. Reading to Read: A Future for Reading: Armando Petrucci. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.