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In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily
reading aloud.
Manuscript culture is conversational if only because the writer
and his audience are physically related by the form of
publication as performance .
The manuscript shaped medieval literary conventions at all
levels.
The traditional lore of school children points to the gap
between the scribal and typographic man.
The medieval monks’ reading carrell was indeed a singing
booth.