One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West
following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way
historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The
cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the
West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust
cultural achievement, would have been impossible without
Gutenberg's gift and its subsequent widespread adoption across most
of the world.
Richard Abel follows the radical cultural impact of the printing
revolution from the eighth century to the Renaissance, addressing
the viability of the new Christian/Classical culture. Although this
culture proved too fragile to endure, those who salvaged it managed
to preserve elements of the Classical substance together with the
Bible and all the writings of the Church Fathers. The cultural
upsurge of the Renaissance (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries),
which resulted in part from Gutenberg's invention, is a major focus
of this book.
Abel aims to delineate how the cultural revolution was shaped by
the invention of printing. He evaluates its impact on the rapid
reorientation and acceleration of the cultural evolution in the
West. This book provides insight into the history of the printed
word, the roots of modern-day mass book production, and the promise
of the electronic revolution. It is an essential work in the
history of ideas.
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