Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Name: Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 9780521607742

ISBN-10: 0521607744

ISBN-13: 9780521607742

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

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What difference did printing make? 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 illustrated and abridged edition provides a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. After summarizing the initial changes, and introducing the establishment of printing shops, it considers how printing effected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science. First Edition Hb (1984) 0-521-25858-8 First…

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List price: $26.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




The Emergence of Print Culture in the West



The unacknowledged revolution



Defining the initial shift



Some features of print culture



The expanding Republic of Letters



Interaction with Other Developments



The permanent Renaissance: mutation of a classical revival



Western Christendom disrupted: resetting the stage for Reformation



The book of nature transformed: printing and the rise of modern science



Conclusion: Scripture and nature transformed


Afterword: Revisiting the printing revolution