TY - SER
AU - Paul Saenger
CY - Stanford, CA
LA - English
N1 - Contains some good information on the history of books and reading.

Contents:
Introduction 
The nomenclature of word separation 
Complements to word separation by space 
Insular culture and word separation in the seventh and eighth centuries 
Exceptions to continental aerated text formats in the ninth and tenth centuries 
The origins of continental word separation, 950-1300 
Word separation and the transcription of numbers and music
The early protoscholastics 
The proliferation of word separation in the eleventh century 
The spread of word separation from England to the low countries and Lorraine 
The spread of word separation from England to northern France 
Cluniac monasticism: eastern and southern France 
Italy 
Reading and writing in northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries 
Written culture at the end of the middle ages 
Appendix: Characteristics relating to word separation in manuscripts surveyed
PB - Stanford University Press
PP - Stanford, CA
PY - 1997
SN - 9780804726535
EP - 480 pp.
TI - Space between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading
ER -