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Byzantium was for a long time the reading and erudition capital of the world. But who was doing all the reading in Byzantium and how were they doing it ? Were they reading out loud, or silently ? Who was learning to read and for what purpose ? Guglielmo Cavallo immersed himself in marginalia, often using previously unpublished documentation so as to draw a lifelike and sometimes astonishing portrait of the Byzantine reader. Books as objects are the focus of this rousing study in which the author's research reveals the distribution networks, prices, and means by which books were then preserved and transmitted.This work, which includes all of the seminars held in 2003 by Guglielmo Cavallo at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales, is the first to be published in the Byzantine Seminar Collection. Whether you are a historian, researcher, student, or an expert, you will find this book to be a remarkable work tool on Medieval Greek civilisation.
