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It was neither the civilization of Renaissance Italy nor the printing press that created the modern world. Instead, it was reading. Through historical analysis and readings of Petrarch, Bruni, Valla, Reuchlin, Erasmus, Foxe and Milton, The Communion of the Book explores how literacy produced modern values, and how digital media threaten those values.

Books and reading --- Civilization, Modern. --- Humanism --- Literacy --- Reading. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- Adrian Johns. --- Aeneid. --- Benedict Anderson. --- Book of Martyrs. --- Elizabeth Eisenstein. --- English Levellers. --- English Revolution. --- Erasmus. --- Euripides. --- Greek tragedy. --- Harold Innis. --- John Foxe. --- John Lilburne. --- Joseph Henrich. --- Leonardo Bruni. --- Lorenzo Valla. --- Marshall McLuhan. --- Paradise Regained. --- Petrarch. --- Renaissance. --- Roman history. --- Samson Agonistes. --- Stanislas Deheane. --- Stationers Company. --- book history. --- classics. --- common law. --- continental jurisprudence. --- continuous reading. --- democracy. --- digital cognition. --- humanist historiography. --- humanist printers. --- incunabula. --- indexical reading. --- literacy rates. --- logos. --- media change. --- metaphor. --- metonymy. --- modernity. --- monopolies of knowledge. --- papyrus codex. --- papyrus scroll. --- parchment codex. --- philoglogy. --- print nations. --- reader neurology. --- reading history. --- sacramental theology. --- science printing. --- sermo.