Covering the long history of literacy in the Western World, a wide variety of experts comments on the role of books and reading in shaping culture, politics, public opinion, and mores from antiquity to the present.
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"It is no exaggeration to say that these historians...have transformed and revitalized the field of book history..." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"Its usefulness to scholars of the history of the book, reading, writing, and print cultures is immense...." -- SHARP News
"The viewpoints offered by the authors are rich and varied...a veritable history of reading in the West..." -- History of Reading News
"There is no way to encapsulate here the richness of these explorations." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Its usefulness to scholars of the history of the book, reading, writing, and print cultures is immense...." -- SHARP News
"The viewpoints offered by the authors are rich and varied...a veritable history of reading in the West..." -- History of Reading News
"There is no way to encapsulate here the richness of these explorations." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Original Language: French, Italian --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Original Language: French, Italian --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The content is wonderful! The book provides much insight to different reading practices and how they change through the years. But...1. The footnotes need to be on the same page as the text. It is hard to keep your place when you constantly have to flip to the back of the book. Also, if the notes were on the same page, I could see whether or not I needed to read the footnote for more information. 2. Provide tranlations of foreign quotations. I don't know about you, but it has been a while since I had a foreign language course. 3. Some of the chapters could be better edited. For example, in chapter 8 ("Protestant Reformations and Reading"), contributing author Jean-Francois Gilmont needs to pinpoint dates more clearly. He mentions a twenty-year span in which the separation of the printed book from the hand-lettered book was finally completed, but says it happened soon after Luther preached against indulgences (p. 214). If Luther talked to the Archbishop of Mainz in 1518 about indulgences, isn't it logical that it was not in 1540 that the separation was complete? 4. The style of writing seems to jump from readable to dry. I know each chapter is by a different author, but is there any way there could be more fluidity from chapter to chapter?
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In this passage Michel de Certeau establishes a fundamental distinction between a written mark - something fixed, lasting, preserving - and its readings, which are always of the order of the ephemeral, plurality and invention. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, United States, New Testament, Council of Trent, Protestant Reformation, French Revolution, Imitation of Christ, Holy Writ, Hugh of Saint Victor, Word of God, Christian West, Eastern Europe, John of Salisbury, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Empire, Catholic Reformation, Fathers of the Church, Guibert of Nogent, Soviet Union, William of Saint Thierry, Bernard of Clairvaux, Faculty of Arts, Great Britain, Messer Leon, Old French New!
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Middle Ages, United States, New Testament, Council of Trent, Protestant Reformation, French Revolution, Imitation of Christ, Holy Writ, Hugh of Saint Victor, Word of God, Christian West, Eastern Europe, John of Salisbury, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Empire, Catholic Reformation, Fathers of the Church, Guibert of Nogent, Soviet Union, William of Saint Thierry, Bernard of Clairvaux, Faculty of Arts, Great Britain, Messer Leon, Old French New!
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