Résumés
Abstract
With an ambition to add new knowledge on early modern reading culture in rural Norway, this essay zooms in on an eighteenth-century East Norwegian parish and conducts a detailed examination of various sources (church records, probate records, auction records, court records) to investigate how reading came into being and took place. Besides supporting previous conclusions about a widespread Scandinavian early modern rural literacy and a preponderance of religious books as owned, sold and bought by the rural population, the essay identifies a rural interest in books far exceeding the religious domain and an attraction to the materiality of books beyond reading. Moreover, court records disclose attitudes and practices related to reading and offer a promising avenue for generating further insights about how and why reading happened.
Keywords:
- Eastern Norway,
- Eighteenth century,
- reading education,
- book ownership,
- reading practices
Résumé
Dans la perspective d’enrichir les connaissances relatives à la culture de la lecture dans la Norvège rurale de l’époque moderne, le présent article s’intéresse au cas particulier d’une paroisse de l’est de ce pays au xviiie siècle. Un examen exhaustif de diverses sources (registres paroissiaux, de succession et de ventes aux enchères; archives de tribunaux) permet de cerner la manière dont se déployait l’acte de lecture. En plus de confirmer des conclusions déjà admises – à savoir l’importance accordée à la littératie dans la Scandinavie rurale de l’époque, et la prépondérance des ouvrages religieux parmi les livres achetés, vendus et possédés par la population –, l’article révèle un intérêt pour les livres qui allait bien au-delà du religieux, ainsi qu’un attrait pour l’objet livre qui transcendait la lecture. Qui plus est, les documents d’ordre judiciaire jettent un nouvel éclairage sur les attitudes et les pratiques relatives à la lecture, et constituent donc une piste prometteuse pour d’éventuels travaux sur le sujet.
Mots-clés :
- Norvège orientale,
- xviiie siècle,
- éducation à la lecture,
- propriété de livres,
- pratiques de lecture
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