In the Middle Ages, the lectio divina was the art of reading Scripture slowly and contemplatively. It was a gustatory experience if not also an experience in attunement. Still in Montaigne’s time, books were to be sat with, chewed on, mulled over, and taken in. Now, books are packets of information: Our eyes do the scanning, our minds the consuming.
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Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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[…] is describing the change in reading practice from a fully embodied, transformative experience (the lectio divina up until the 13th C.) and studium, a newer approach that teaches reading for the sake of the […]