Sadržaj:
  • Introduction /
  • Guhlielmmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier :
  • The Greek and Hellenistic world: diversity in practice
  • Reading in Rome: new texts and new books
  • The Middle ages: from monastic writing to scholastic rading
  • The Modern age: geographical variations in reading
  • Revolutions
  • Typology
  • Reading between constraing and invention
  • 1. Archaic and classical Greece: the invention of silent reading /
  • Jesper Svenbro :
  • The vocabulary of reading in Greek
  • The triple lesson of verbs signifying 'to read'
  • The 'I' and the voice
  • Silent reading
  • the theatrical model
  • Staged writing and writing in the soul
  • Athens: the alphabet on stage
  • 2. Between 'Voluimen' and Codex: reading in the Roman world /
  • Guglielmo Cavallo :
  • The birth of a reading public
  • Ways to read
  • New spaces for reading
  • 'Volumen' and Codex: from recreational reading to normative reading
  • 3. Reading, copying and interpreting a text in the Early Middle ages /
  • M. B. Parkes :
  • Reading for the salvation of one's soul
  • Reading aloud and silent reading
  • The written word as visible language
  • New developments in the presentation of texts
  • Christian exegesis and the interpretation of texts
  • The development of punctuation
  • The presentation of vernacular texts
  • 4. The scholastic model of reading /
  • Jacqueline Hamesse :
  • From rumination to lectura
  • reference to Auctoritates
  • Intellectual working tools
  • Why Florilegia and abridgements were so successful
  • The role of the religious orders
  • Humanistic compilations
  • The decline of the scholastic model
  • 5. Reading in the Later Middle ages /
  • Paul Saenger :
  • The twelfth century
  • Autorship
  • Book production
  • Canonical world separation and changes in scholastic grammatical theory
  • Written culture in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
  • 6. Reading in the Jewish communities of Western Europe in the Middle ages /
  • Robert Bonfil :
  • The book and the reading in the domain of the sacred
  • the book and reading in the urban setting
  • Crisis of authority and repressive policies
  • Reading and society: toward the open book
  • Study as religious ritual
  • The synagogue as public library
  • Holy language, vernacular languages
  • Reading as religious ritual: persistence of medieval modes
  • Individual reading: the organization of graphic space
  • The iconography of reading
  • The spaces of reading
  • Orality and writing: the need for mediation
  • The doubling of fields of reading
  • 7. The humanist as reader /
  • Anthony Grafton :
  • Books for the beach and for the battlefield
  • 'The unmediated text'
  • Classicism and the classics: the text and its frame
  • Meeting the middlemen: Cartolai, printers and readers
  • Meeting the intermediaries: the schoolmaster and the reader
  • In the study
  • Huet: the end of tradition
  • 8. Protestant reformations and reading /
  • Jean-Françoise Gilmont :
  • Printing in the people's language
  • The dangers of reading
  • Plural readings
  • The appropriation and circulation of texts
  • The authority of writing
  • 9. Reading and the counter-reformation /
  • Dominique Julia :
  • The conciliar texts
  • Reading the Bible
  • reading and the clergy
  • Reading among faithful
  • Catechisms
  • What the illiterate read
  • 10. Reading matter and 'popular' reading: from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century /
  • Roger Chartier :
  • Shared reading
  • The popular market for print
  • Contrasting appropriations
  • Reading aloud, silent reading
  • Publishing formulas and text types
  • reading styles
  • 11. Was there a reading revolution at the end of the eighteenth century? /
  • Reinhard Wittmann :
  • The world of readers
  • Old and new forms of reading in the eighteenth century
  • The 'reading mania'
  • Reading tastes and the book trade
  • Lending libraries and reading societies
  • 12. New readers in the nineteenth century: women, children, workers /
  • Martyn Lyons :
  • The female reader: occupying a space of her own
  • The child as a reader: from classroom learning to reading for pleasure
  • The working classes: prescribed reading, improvised reading
  • The persistence of oral reading
  • 13. Reading to read: a future for reading /
  • Armando Petrucci :
  • How much do people read, and where do they read?
  • Control and limits
  • Canon and classification
  • A crisis in reading, a crisis in production
  • Contestation of the Canon
  • Other readings
  • Reading disorders
  • Modes of reading
  • The absence of canons and new canons