The Communion of the Book : Milton and the Humanist Revolution in Reading / David Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, David, 1945- author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas.

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--History.

Books and reading.

Civilization, Modern.

Humanism--History.

Humanism.

Literacy--History.

Literacy.

Reading.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

It was neither the civilization of Renaissance Italy nor the printing press that created the modern world. Instead, it was reading. Through historical analysis and readings of Petrarch, Bruni, Valla, Reuchlin, Erasmus, Foxe and Milton, The Communion of the Book explores how literacy produced modern values, and how digital media threaten those values.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Prolegomenon to a History of Reading

Acknowledgments

A Note on Archival Sources

Introduction: The State as a Work of Art

1 A Printing Revolution or a Reading Revolution?

2 Bread, Blood, and Paper: The Incarnate Text and the Early Modern Crisis

3 Philological Reading: The Iconic Word and the Word as Speech

4 Sacramental Reading: Foxe's Book of Actes and Milton's Fifth Gospel

5 Juridical Reading: John Lilburne and the Contradictions of English Law

6 Historiographical Reading: The Tragedy of History in Milton and Ludlow

7 Classical Reading: Milton's Euripidean Tragedy

8 The Communion of the Book: A Dialectic of Presence and Absence

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780228015864

0228015863

9780228015857

0228015855

OCLC:

1328038894