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Gutenberg and the Impact of Printing (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Gutenberg and the Impact of Printing (Hardcover, New Ed)
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From typefounding through typesetting to the printing process
itself, this narrative offers a fresh look at the unprecedented
success story of the spread of the 'black art' right across Europe
in a mere 40 years. Stephan FA1/4ssel here analyses the first early
printings, placing them in the context of the history of
communication and the intellectual climate of a Europe-wide
educated elite by about 1500. He foregrounds the tremendous rise in
European culture and the history of education experienced as a
direct result of this media revolution. In separate chapters
FA1/4ssel depicts the fast spreading of the art of printing to
Italy, France and England, at the same time highlighting the
importance of the art of printing for the Roman Catholic Church,
the Reformation, the University and the economy. From herbals to a
guide for midwives, the present book shows popular instruction at
work in the vernacular, as well as the consolidation of knowledge
into encyclopedias in the early modern period, and the emergence of
new forms of the prose novel and the beginnings of newspapers and
periodicals. Finally Stephan FA1/4ssel traces the modern resonances
of Gutenberg's invention, which persisted in virtually unchanged
form for a further 350 years. It underwent decisive technological
change through industrialisation and mechanisation in the
nineteenth century, and again through digitalisation at the close
of the twentieth century. However, as FA1/4ssel shows, the mass
diffusion of information and the related communications revolution
which began with Gutenberg continue unabated.
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