Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edition discusses the changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops and how printing affected major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation and the rise of modern science. It also demonstrates that the cumulative processes created by printing are likely to persist despite the development of new technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Canto Classics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2., überarb. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781107632752
• ISBN-10: 1107632757
• Artikelnr.: 35117832

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Emergence of Print Culture in the West: 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: 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: revisiting the printing revolution.

Rezensionen

'This is a good and important book ... the author's clear and forceful style makes it a pleasure to read.' The New York Review of Books