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.

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