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