History of Reading in the West

Contents: Archaic and classical Greece: the invention of silent reading / Jesper Svenbro Between Volumen and Codex: reading in the Roman world / Guglielmo Cavallo Reading, copying and interpreting a text in the early Middle Ages / M.B. Parkes The scholastic model of reading / Jacqueline Hamesse Reading in the later Middle Ages / Paul Saenger Reading in the Jewish communities of Western Europe in the Middle Ages / Robert Bonfil The humanist as reader / Anthony Grafton Protestant reformation and reading / Jean-François Gilmont Reading and the counter-reformation / Dominique Julia Reading matter and 'popular' reading: from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century / Roger Chartier Was there a reading revolution at the end of the eighteenth century? / Reinhard Wittmann New readers in the nineteenth century: women, children, workers / Martyn Lyons Reading to read: a future for reading / Armando Petrucci