Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures, Plates and Tables vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 The Move Towards Literacy Among Confucian Scholars in Ancient China 11
7. 2 Reading for Rule: Emperor Taizong of Tang and Qunshu zhiyao 31
8. 3 Medieval Women Writers and What They Read, c. 1100 – c. 1500 54
9. 4 Mi ritrovai per un poema sacro. The Ideological Reading Subject in Dante’s Inferno 5 74
10. 5 The Unreadable Book of Margery Kempe 98
11. 6 Between Reading and Doing: The Case of Medieval Manuscript Books of Practical Medicine 115
12. 7 Visual Form and Reading Communities: The Example of Early Modern Broadside Elegies 135
13. 8 Ottomans Reading Persian Classics: Readers and Reading in the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1700 160
14. 9 Books, Readers and Reading Experiences in the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 182
15. 10 ‘Read it o’re and o’re’: Eikon Basilike and Sacramental Reading in the Seventeenth Century 206
16. 11 Plurilingual Poetry and the Hinterland of Intertextuality: Europeanising Reading Culture in the Early Modern Iberian World 227
17. 12 Printed Private Library Catalogues as a Source for the History of Reading in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe 249
18. 13 Reading, Visual Literacy and the Illustrated Literary Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain 270
19. 14 Reading Aloud, Past and Present 297
20. Select Bibliography 315
21. Index of Methods and Sources 355
22. General Index 356