The History of Silent Reading: Mysterious and Instructive
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The History of Silent Reading: Mysterious and Instructive
Marilyn Jager Adams April 6th, 2015
Written language, in one form or another, has been around for thousands of years, alphabetic scripts for more than 3,000. Even so, the notion that written language was to be read for understanding was hardly appreciated, much less accepted, by Europeans until the early Renaissance.