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By Daniel G. Donoghue (Editor), James Simpson (Editor), Nicholas Watson (Editor), Anna Wilson (Editor), Amy Appleford (Contribution by), Michelle De Groot (Contribution by), Daniel G. Donoghue (Contribution by), Andrew James Johnston (Contribution by), Andrew B Kraebel (Contribution by), Kathryn Mogk-Wagner (Contribution by), Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Contribution by), Catherine Sanok (Contribution by), Samantha Katz Seal (Contribution by), James Simpson (Contribution by), Emily V. Thornbury (Contribution by), Kathleen Tonry (Contribution by), Nicholas Watson (Contribution by), Erica Weaver (Contribution by), Anna Wilson (Contribution by)

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A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue durée.

Even as it transforms human cultures, routines, attention spans, and the wiring of our brains, the media revolution of the last few decades also urges a reconsideration of the long history of reading. The essays in this volume take a new look at how reading was practised and represente...