TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donoghue,Daniel
AU  - Simpson,James
AU  - Watson,Nicholas
AU  - Wilson,Anna
TI  - The Practice and Politics of Reading: 650-1500 
SN  - 9781843846413
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Boydell and Brewer
KW  - Lectura
KW  - Aspectos sociológicos
KW  - Inglaterra
KW  - 0650-1500
KW  - Libros y lectura
N2  - A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue duree. Even as it transforms human cultures, routines, attention spans, and the wiring of our brains, the media revolution of the last few decades also urges a reconsideration of the long history of reading. The essays in this volume take a new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, using texts from Aldhelm to Malory and Wynkyn de Worde, arguing that whether unpicking intricate Latin, contemplating image-texts, or participating in semiotically-rich public rituals, reading cultivated and energized the subject's values, perceptions, and attitudes to the world
ER  -