Publisher'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-François Gilmont.
9. Reading and the Counter-Reformation: Dominique Julia.
10. Reading Matter and 'Popular' 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.
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