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The printing revolution early modern Europe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Edition: 2. edDescription: 384 sISBN:
  • 0521845432
  • 9780521845434
  • 0521607744 (m)
  • 9780521607742 (m)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.2
LOC classification:
  • Z 124 E36p 2005
Contents:
Part I. The Emergence of Print Culture in the West:5. The permanent Renaissance: mutation of a classical revival; 6. Western Christendom disrupted: resetting the stage for Reformation; 7. The book of nature transformed: printing and the rise of modern science; 8. Conclusion: Scripture and nature transformed; Afterword / 1. The unacknowledged revolution; 2. Defining the initial shift; 3. Some features of print culture; 4. The expanding Republic of Letters; Part II. Interaction with Other Developments -- revisiting the printing revolution.
Summary: Although the importance of the advent of printing for the Western world has long been recognized, it was Elizabeth Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This edition gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. After summarizing the initial changes introduce by the establishment of printing shops, it goes on to discuss how printing effected three major cultural movements:.
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Part I. The Emergence of Print Culture in the West:5. The permanent Renaissance: mutation of a classical revival; 6. Western Christendom disrupted: resetting the stage for Reformation; 7. The book of nature transformed: printing and the rise of modern science; 8. Conclusion: Scripture and nature transformed; Afterword / 1. The unacknowledged revolution; 2. Defining the initial shift; 3. Some features of print culture; 4. The expanding Republic of Letters; Part II. Interaction with Other Developments -- revisiting the printing revolution.

Although the importance of the advent of printing for the Western world has long been recognized, it was Elizabeth Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This edition gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. After summarizing the initial changes introduce by the establishment of printing shops, it goes on to discuss how printing effected three major cultural movements:.

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