A History of Reading and Writing: In the Western World

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2010
Author	Author: Martyn Lyons
Language	English
Number of Pages	267 pp.
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
City	New York, NY
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Region	Europe
Chronological Period	10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 1800-1849 1850-1899 18th century 1900-1949 1950-1999 21st century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century Ancient Period (pre 500)
ISBN	9780230001619
Annotation	Contents: What is the history of reading and writing? Reading and writing in the ancient and medieval world Was there a printing revolution? Print and the Protestant Reformation Renaissance books and humanist readers Print and popular culture The rise of literacy in the early modern West, c. 1600-c.1800 Censorship and the reading public in pre-revolutionary France The reading fever, 1750-1830 The age of the mass reading public New readers and reading cultures The democratisation of writing, 1800 to the present Readers and writers in the digital age