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Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture)

Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading by Paul Saenger
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“Private, visual reading and private composition thus encouraged individual critical thinking and contributed ultimately to the development of skepticism and intellectual heresy.”
― Paul Saenger, Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading

tags: history, history-of-reading, medieval-history, reading

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“Psychologically [the proliferation of] silent reading emboldened the reader because it placed the source of his curiosity completely under personal control.”
― Paul Saenger, Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading

tags: history, medieval-history, reading, silent-reading

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