The Practice and Representation of Reading in England
Contributors: James Raven (Editor); Helen Small (Editor); Naomi Tadmor (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780521023238
Subjects: Literacy; Social history; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Books & Reading; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Books and reading--Great Britain--History; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism : Books & Reading; Literary Criticism : Eastern European; Books and reading; England; History; Sociological aspects
First sentence: In the learned culture of the Middle Ages, reading most often occurred in the context of specific and clearly defined educational disciplines.