Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: January 26, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780804726535
Subjects: Dialectology; Silent reading; Language; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Books & Reading; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading; History; Books And Reading
Description: This book explains how a change in writing - the introduction of word separation - led to the development of silent reading during the period from late antiquity to the fifteenth century. The greater part of this book describes in detail how the new format of word separation, in conjunction with silent reading, spread from the British Isles and took gradual hold in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.