Description: This book explains how a change in writing--the introduction of word separation--led to the development of silent reading during the period from late antiquity to the 15th century. It also explains why word separation was so long in coming.
Review Quotes: "Saenger outlined his revolutionary thesis 15 years ago in his famous essay 'Silent Reading'; the present magisterial book retells the story step by step. . . . Paleographic studies rarely command wide audiences, but Saenger tells so important a story that Space Between Words will interest all who are concerned with the history of reading or the book." --Choice