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Gutenberg's Europe - The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity (Paperback)
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Gutenberg's Europe - The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity (Paperback)
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Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel
transformations in systems of social communication what we call the
media. In this book, historian Frederic Barbier provides an
important new economic, political and social analysis of the first
great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg's invention of the
printing press in the mid fifteenth century. In great detail and
with a wealth of historical evidence, Barbier charts the
developments in manuscript culture in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries, and shows how the steadily increasing need for written
documents initiated the processes of change which culminated with
Gutenberg. The fifteenth century is presented as the 'age of
start-ups' when investment and research into technologies that were
new at the time, including the printing press, flourished. Tracing
the developments through the sixteenth century, Barbier analyses
the principal features of this first media revolution: the growth
of technology, the organization of the modern literary sector, the
development of surveillance and censorship and the invention of the
process of 'mediatization'. He offers a rich variety of examples
from cities all over Europe, as well as looking at the evolution of
print media in China and Korea. This insightful re-interpretation
of the Gutenberg revolution also looks beyond the specific
historical context to draw connections between the advent of print
in the Rhine Valley ('paper valley') and our own modern digital
revolution. It will be of great interest to students and scholars
of early modern history, of literature and the media, and will
appeal to anyone interested in what remains one of the greatest
cultural revolutions of all time.
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