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crl-15238	Garrett, Jeffrey	Saenger, Paul Henry. Space between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Pr. (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture), 1997. 480p. $49.50, alk. paper (ISBN 0‐8047-2653-1). LC 96-35088.	1998-09-01	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1978	85	57	In charting this spread across Europe, Space between Words gives careful consideration to the addi­ tional graphic cues that allowed medieval readers to read fluidly, rapidly, and si­ lently: capitalization to mark the begin­ nings of certain words; traits d’union (roughly, hyphens) showing the lack of completion of a word at the end of a line; ligatures and “monolexisms” (such as the “&”) that aided the “compaction” of text—all technological devices improving reading efficiency. Of course, separations of texts into word units did not happen by fiat or all at once but, instead, emerged slowly, from the seventh century on, beginning in the Scriptoria of the British Isles and moving gradually eastward and south­ ward through Europe.	cache/crl-15238.pdf	txt/crl-15238.txt