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.
Author(s): Mary Hammond
Series: Edinburgh History of Reading
Edition: webready PDF
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
City: Edinburgh
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Contents
Figures, Plates and Tables
Contributors
Introduction
Mary Hammond
1. The Move Towards Literacy Among Confucian Scholars in Ancient China
Liqing Tao and David Reinking
2. Reading for Rule: Emperor Taizong of Tang and Qunshu zhiyao
Fan Wang
3. Medieval Women Writers and What They Read, c. 1100 – c. 1500
Martha W. Driver
4. Mi ritrovai per un poema sacro. The Ideological Reading Subject in Dante’s Inferno 5
Glenn A. Steinberg
5. The Unreadable Book of Margery Kempe
Ashley R. Ott
6. Between Reading and Doing: The Case of Medieval Manuscript Books of Practical Medicine
Faith Wallis
7. Visual Form and Reading Communities: The Example of Early Modern Broadside Elegies
Katherine Acheson
8. Ottomans Reading Persian Classics: Readers and Reading in the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1700
Murat Umut Inan
9. Books, Readers and Reading Experiences in the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Pedro M. Guibovich Pérez
10. ‘Read it o’re and o’re’: Eikon Basilike and Sacramental Reading in the Seventeenth Century
Kyle Sebastian Vitale
11. Plurilingual Poetry and the Hinterland of Intertextuality: Europeanising Reading Culture in the Early Modern Iberian World
Maya Feile Tomes
12. Printed Private Library Catalogues as a Source for the History of Reading in Seventeenth- to Eighteenth-Century Europe
Helwi Blom, Rindert Jagersma and Juliette Reboul
13. Reading, Visual Literacy and the Illustrated Literary Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Sandro Jung
14. Reading Aloud, Past and Present
W. R. Owens
Select Bibliography
Index of Methods and Sources
General Index
