Guglielmo Cavallo

Roger Chartier

Storia della lettura nel mondo occidentale

El simple acto de la lectura implica en realidad miles de significados que son desvelados en este ya clásico libro, la primera gran síntesis sobre esta materia, que se presenta ahora en una nueva edición. Leer uno o más textos, en voz alta o en silencio, en público o en solitario, rápidamente o descifrando con esfuerzo cada letra, en un manuscrito o en una pantalla de ordenador equivale a recrear, en cada momento, el significado de lo escrito en función de las propias capacidades y expectativas. Esta historia, fruto del trabajo de destacados especialistas, pone en evidencia los cambios esenciales que han incidido en las modalidades de lectura: desde la lectura silenciosa en la Grecia antigua a las novedades introducidas por la imprenta, hasta llegar a la revolución electrónica que estamos viviendo. Todo ello es historia de los objetos, es decir, los libros, en sus diversas formas, pero también es historia de los hombres y las mujeres, de los adultos y de los adolescentes, de sus gestos, sus actitudes y costumbres, de los espacios y de los momentos reservados a la lectura.

Historia de la lectura en el mundo occidental

A History of Reading in the West

This path-breaking study will become the standard work on thehistory of reading in the West. It will be indispensable tostudents of cultural history, and to all those who want a freshperspective on the history of books and their uses. Wide-ranging and authoritative account of the changingpractices of reading from the ancient world to the presentday. An international team of leading historians examine thetechnical innovations which change physical aspects of books andother texts, as well as the changing forms of reading and thegrowth and transformation of the reading public. Contributors include: Robert Bonfil, Guglielmo Cavallo, RogerChartier, Jean-Francois Gilmont, Anthony Grafton, JacquelineHamesse, Dominique Julia, Martyn Lyons, M.B. Parkes, ArmandoPetrucci, Paul Saenger, Jesper Svenbro and Reinhard Wittmann. This path-breaking study has been highly successful in hardbackand is now available in paperback for the first time.

Oronzo Pecere

Giulia Orofino

rotoli liturgici del medioevo meridionale

Exultet

Athenian books in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.

Le biblioteche nel mondo antico e medievale

Italy. Ufficio centrale per i beni librari e gli istituti culturali

manoscritti, incunaboli, libri a stampa di biblioteche statali italiane

I luoghi della memoria scritta

Claudio Leonardi

Enrico Menestò

Cronologia e bibliografia della letteratura mediolatina

I Bizantini in Italia

For more than a thousand years, Byzantium flourished at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. But who were the people of the first modern civilized state? What features distinguished them from earlier civilizations, and what cultural characteristics, despite their multi-ethnic origins, made them uniquely Byzantine? Through a series of remarkably detailed composite portraits, an international collection of distinguished scholars has created a startlingly clear vision of the Byzantines and their social world. Paupers, peasants, soldiers, teachers, bureaucrats, clerics, emperors, and saints—all are vividly and authentically presented in the context of ordinary Byzantine life. No comparable volume exists that so fascinatingly recovers from the past the men and women of Byzantium, their culture and their lifeways, and their strikingly modern worldview.

The Byzantines

Guglielmo Cavallo

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