The printing press as an agent of change : communications and cultural transformations in early modern Europe, volumes I and II / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein.
By: Eisenstein, Elizabeth L
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BookPublisher: Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980, c1979Description: 2 v. in 1 (xxi, 794 p.) ; 23 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0521299551.Subject(s): Printing -- Influence | Reformation | Renaissance | Technology and civilizationDDC classification: 686.2
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 686.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00066216 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Originally published in two volumes in 1980, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is now issued in a paperback edition containing both volumes. The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining the general implications of the shift from script to print, and goes on to examine its part in three of the major movements of early modern times - the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.
"Complete in one volume."
Bibliography: p. 709-767. - Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Part I Introduction to an Elusive Transformation
- 1 The unacknowledged revolution
- 2 Defining the initial shift; some features of print culture
- Part II Classical and Christian Traditions Reorientated; Renaissance and Reformation Reappraised
- 3 A classical revival reoriented: the two phases of the Renaissance
- 4 The scriptual tradition recast: resetting the stage for the Reformation
- Part III The Book of Nature Transformed
- 5 Introduction: problems of periodization
- 6 Technical literature goes to press: some new trends in scientific writing and research
- 7 Resetting the stage for the Copernican Revolution
- 8 Sponsorship and censorship of scientific publication
- Conclusion
- Bibliographical index
- General index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein was born Elizabeth Ann Lewisohn on October 11, 1923 in Manhattan, New York. She received a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1944 and master's and doctoral degrees in history from Harvard University. She taught at American University in Washington before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, where she taught until her retirement in 1988. She wrote several books during her lifetime including The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe, The First Professional Revolutionist, Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press From the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution, and Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending. She died on January 31, 2016 at the age of 92.(Bowker Author Biography)