search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for A History of Reading in the West
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Publisher's Note
ix
 
Introduction
1
4
Guglielmo Cavallo
Roger Chartier
The Greek and Hellenistic World: Diversity in Practice
5
7
Reading in Rome: New Texts and New Books
12
3
The Middle Ages: From Monastic Writing to Scholastic Reading
15
5
The Modern Age: Geographical Variations in Reading
20
2
Revolutions
22
7
Typology
29
4
Reading between Constraint and Invention
33
4
Archaic and Classical Greece: The Invention of Silent Reading
37
27
Jesper Svenbro
The Vocabulary of Reading in Greek
38
6
The Triple Lesson of Verbs Signifying `To Read'
44
2
The `I' and the Voice
46
4
Silent Reading
50
2
The Theatrical Model
52
6
Staged Writing and Writing in the Soul
58
2
Athens: The Alphabet on Stage
60
4
Between Volumen and Codex: Reading in the Roman World
64
26
Guglielmo Cavallo
The Birth of a Reading Public
65
6
Ways to Read
71
5
New Spaces for Reading
76
7
Volumen and Codex: From Recreational Reading to Normative Reading
83
7
Reading, Copying and Interpreting a Text in the Early Middle Ages
90
13
M. B. Parkes
Reading for the Salvation of One's Soul
91
1
Reading Aloud and Silent Reading
92
1
The Written Word as Visible Language
93
3
New Developments in the Presentation of Texts
96
3
Christian Exegesis and the Interpretation of Texts
99
1
The Development of Punctuation
100
2
The Presentation of Vernacular Texts
102
1
The Scholastic Model of Reading
103
17
Jacqueline Hamesse
From ruminatio to lectura
104
2
Reference to Auctoritates
106
2
Intellectual Working Tools
108
3
Why Florilegia and Abridgements were so Successful
111
4
The Role of the Religious Orders
115
2
Humanistic Compilations
117
1
The Decline of the Scholastic Model
118
2
Reading in the Later Middle Ages
120
29
Paul Saenger
The Twelfth Century
120
6
Authorship
126
2
Book Production
128
2
Canonical Word Separation and Changes in Scholastic Grammatical Theory
130
1
Written Culture in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
131
18
Reading in the Jewish Communities of Western Europe in the Middle Ages
149
30
Robert Bonfil
The Book and Reading in the Domain of the Sacred
150
3
The Book and Reading in the Urban Setting
153
2
Crisis of Authority and Repressive Policies
155
4
Reading and Society: Toward the Open Book
159
2
Study as Religious Ritual
161
1
The Synagogue as Public Library
162
4
Holy Language, Vernacular Languages
166
2
Reading as Religious Ritual: Persistence of Medieval Modes
168
2
Individual Reading: The Organization of Graphic Space
170
2
The Iconography of Reading
172
1
The Spaces of Reading
173
2
Orality and Writing: The Need for Mediation
175
2
The Doubling of Fields of Reading
177
2
The Humanist as Reader
179
34
Anthony Grafton
Books for the Beach and for the Battlefield
180
1
`The unmediated text'
181
2
Classicism and the Classics: The Text and its Frame
183
6
Meeting the Middlemen: Cartolai, Printers and Readers
189
7
Meeting the Intermediaries: The Schoolmaster and the Reader
196
9
In the Study
205
5
Huet: The End of a Tradition
210
3
Protestant Reformations and Reading
213
25
Jean-Francois Gilmont
Printing in the People's Language
215
4
The Dangers of Reading
219
5
Plural Readings
224
6
The Appropriation and Circulation of Texts
230
3
The Authority of Writing
233
5
Reading and the Counter-Reformation
238
31
Dominique Julia
The Conciliar Texts
239
4
Reading the Bible
243
8
Reading and the Clergy
251
6
Reading among the Faithful
257
4
Catechisms
261
5
What the Illiterate Read
266
3
Reading Matter and `Popular' Reading: From the Renaissance to the Seventeenth Century
269
15
Roger Chartier
Shared Reading
270
2
The Popular Market for Print
272
2
Contrasting Appropriations
274
2
Reading Aloud, Silent Reading
276
2
Publishing Formulas and Text Types
278
3
Reading Styles
281
3
Was there a Reading Revolution at the End of the Eighteenth Century?
284
29
Reinhard Wittmann
The World of Readers
286
4
Old and New Forms of Reading in the Eighteenth Century
290
5
The `Reading Mania'
295
6
Reading Tastes and the Book Trade
301
5
Lending Libraries and Reading Societies
306
7
New Readers in the Nineteenth Century: Women, Children, Workers
313
32
Martyn Lyons
The Female Reader: Occupying a Space of her Own
315
9
The Child as a Reader: From Classroom Learning to Reading for Pleasure
324
7
The Working Classes: Prescribed Reading, Improvised Reading
331
11
The Persistence of Oral Reading
342
3
Reading to Read: A Future for Reading
345
23
Armando Petrucci
How Much do People Read, and Where do they Read?
346
2
Control and Limits
348
2
Canon and Classification
350
2
A Crisis in Reading, a Crisis in Production
352
3
Contestation of the Canon
355
3
Other Readings
358
2
Reading Disorders
360
2
Modes of Reading
362
4
The Absence of Canons and New Canons
366
2
Notes
368
75
Select Bibliography
443
30
1 General Studies
443
4
2 Greece and Rome
447
2
3 The Middle Ages
449
4
4 The Renaissance and the Reformation
453
4
5 From the Classical Age to the Enlightenment
457
9
6 The Nineteenth Century
466
3
7 The Twentieth Century
469
4
Index
473