Early readers
"Early Readers presents a number of innovative ways through which we might capture or infer traces of readers in cultures where most evidence has been lost. It begins by investigating what a close analysis of extant texts from 6th-century BCE China can tell us about contemporary reading practices, explores the reading of medieval European women and their male medical practitioner counterparts, traces readers across New Spain, Peru, the Ottoman Empire and the Iberian world between 1500 and 1800,…
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- Full title :Early readers / edited by Mary Hammond.
Summary
"Early Readers presents a number of innovative ways through which we might capture or infer traces of readers in cultures where most evidence has been lost. It begins by investigating what a close analysis of extant texts from 6th-century BCE China can tell us about contemporary reading practices, explores the reading of medieval European women and their male medical practitioner counterparts, traces readers across New Spain, Peru, the Ottoman Empire and the Iberian world between 1500 and 1800, and ends with an analysis of the surprisingly enduring practice of reading aloud."--
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- Publication Date:©2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
- Place of Publication:Edinburgh
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 367 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color) ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1474446086, 9781474446082
- oclc:on1085161767
- LC Classification:Z1003
- Dewey Decimal:028.9
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