The Edinburgh History of Reading: Early Readers

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Contributors
Introduction
	Mary Hammond
1. The Move Towards Literacy Among Confucian Scholars in Ancient China
	Liqing Tao and David Reinking
2. Reading for Rule: Emperor Taizong of Tang and Qunshu zhiyao
	Fan Wang
3. Medieval Women Writers and What They Read, c. 1100 – c. 1500
	Martha W. Driver
4. Mi ritrovai per un poema sacro. The Ideological Reading Subject in Dante’s Inferno 5
	Glenn A. Steinberg
5. The Unreadable Book of Margery Kempe
	Ashley R. Ott
6. Between Reading and Doing: The Case of Medieval Manuscript Books of Practical Medicine
	Faith Wallis
7. Visual Form and Reading Communities: The Example of Early Modern Broadside Elegies
	Katherine Acheson
8. Ottomans Reading Persian Classics: Readers and Reading in the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1700
	Murat Umut Inan
9. Books, Readers and Reading Experiences in the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
	Pedro M. Guibovich Pérez
10. ‘Read it o’re and o’re’: Eikon Basilike and Sacramental Reading in the Seventeenth Century
	Kyle Sebastian Vitale
11. Plurilingual Poetry and the Hinterland of Intertextuality: Europeanising Reading Culture in the Early Modern Iberian World
	Maya Feile Tomes
12. 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
13. Reading, Visual Literacy and the Illustrated Literary Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain
	Sandro Jung
14. Reading Aloud, Past and Present
	W. R. Owens
Select Bibliography
Index of Methods and Sources
General Index