The Edinburgh history of reading : early readers / edited by Mary Hammond.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

The move towards literacy among Confucian scholars in ancient China / Liqing Tao and David Reinking -- Reading for rule: Emperor Taizong of Tang and Qunshu zhiyao / Fan Wang -- Medieval women writers and what they read, c. 1100 -- c. 1500 / Martha W. Driver -- Mi ritrovai per un poema sacro. The ideological reading subject in Dante's Inferno / Glenn A. Steinberg -- The unreadable book of Margery Kempe / Ashley R. Ott -- Between reading and doing: the case of medieval manuscript books of practical medicine / Faith Wallis -- Visual form and reading communities: the example of early modern broadside elegies / Katherine Acheson -- Ottomans reading Persian classics: readers and reading in the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1700 / Murat Umut Inan -- Books, readers and reading experiences in the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Pedro M. Guibovich Pérez -- 'Read it o're and o're': Eikon Basilike and sacramental reading in the seventeenth century / Kyle Sebastian Vitale -- Plurilingual poetry and the hinterland of intertextuality: Europeanising reading culture in the early modern Iberian world / Maya Feile Tomes -- 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 -- Reading, visual literacy and the illustrated literary text in eighteenth-century Britain / Sandro Jung -- Reading aloud, past and present / W.R. Owens

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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages. Covers reading practices from China in the 6th century BCE to Britain in the 18th century. Employs a range of methodologies from close textual analysis to quantitative data on book ownership. Examines a wide range of texts and ways of reading them from English poetry and funeral elegies to translated books in Peru. Challenges period-based models of readership history. 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.--Provided by publisher.

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