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The communion of the book : Milton and the humanist revolution in reading /

"The modern world was not created by the civilization of Renaissance Italy, the advent of the printing press, or the marriage restrictions imposed by the medieval church. Rather, it was widespread reading that brought about most of the cognitive, psychological, and social changes that we recogn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, David, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 86.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Printing Revolution or a Reading Revolution?
  • Bread, Blood, and Paper: The Incarnate Text and the Early Modern Crisis
  • Humanist Reading: "The Booke of the Crucyfixe" and Erasmian Philology
  • Sacramental Reading: Foxe's Book of Actes and Milton's Fifth Gospel
  • Juridical Reading: John Lilburne and the Contradictions of English Law
  • Historiographical Reading: The Tragedy of History in Milton and Ludlow
  • Classical Reading: Milton's Euripidean Tragedy
  • The Communion of the Book: A Dialectic of Presence and Absence.