Space between words : the origins of silent reading, Paul Saenger

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Space between words : the origins of silent reading, Paul Saenger

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the origins of silent reading

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Paul Saenger

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• Space between words : the origins of silent reading

Publication

• Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, c1997

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-448) and indexes

Contents

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

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35548786

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24 cm

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xviii, 480 p.

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9780804726535

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(acid-free paper)

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96035088

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ill.

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.b1625224x