Space between words : the origins of silent reading
This book explains how a change in writing - the introduction of word separation - led to the development of silent reading during the period from late antiquity to the fifteenth century. The greater part of this book describes in detail how the new format of word separation, in conjunction with silent reading, spread from the British Isles and took gradual hold in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain
Print Book, English, ©1997
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., ©1997
History
xviii, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780804726535, 9780804740166, 0804726531, 080474016X
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Introduction
The nomenclature of word separation
Complements to word separation by space
Insular culture and word separation in the seventh and eighth centuries
Exceptions to continental aerated text formats in the ninth and tenth centuries
The origins of continental word separation, 950-1300
Word separation and the transcription of numbers and music
The early protoscholastics
The proliferation of word separation in the eleventh century
The spread of word separation from England to the low countries and Lorraine
The spread of word separation from England to northern France
Cluniac monasticism: eastern and southern France
Italy
Reading and writing in northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Written culture at the end of the middle ages
Appendix: Characteristics relating to word separation in manuscripts surveyed