Gutenberg And The Impact Of Printing

Author : Stephan Füssel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351931878

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Gutenberg and the Impact of Printing by Stephan Füssel Pdf

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 Füssel 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 Füssel 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 Füssel 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 Füssel shows, the mass diffusion of information and the related communications revolution which began with Gutenberg continue unabated.

Author : Henry Freeman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1717188583

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Johannes Gutenberg by Henry Freeman Pdf

Johannes Gutenberg Archimedes once said, "Give me but a firm spot on which to stand and I shall move the earth." Well, Johannes Gutenberg must have been standing on granite because his impact on the world has been earth-shattering. Before his time, books were a rarity, only affordable for the rich or influential. So, in order to make books accessible for everyone, Gutenberg invented a printing press using movable type. Inside you will read about... - Gutenberg's Early Childhood - The Printing Press - Impact of German Movable Type Printing Press - Gutenberg's Books - Later Life and Death And much more! Printing became faster and cheaper. Suddenly books were available everywhere, which led to the lower classes in society learning to read and to write. People were discovering books, but they were unearthing much more than what they were reading. There was an explosion of information, very much like the Information Age of today, which set people on quests for the truth. This would lead to the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment, where fundamental human truths were challenged at every level. And it all started with a book.

Author : Stephan Füssel
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781912208685

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Gutenberg by Stephan Füssel Pdf

Named “Man of the Millennium” in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe’s history: a printing press with mechanical movable type. This development sparked the printing revolution, which is regarded as the milestone of the second millennium and represents one of the central contributions in the turn to modernity. His printing press came to play a key role in the development of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Age of Enlightenment, providing the material foundation for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses. His invention revolutionized the way that information is shared and broadened the boundaries of who has access to written knowledge. Paving the way for bibliophiles of today, the Gutenberg Bible of 1454 remains one of the most famous books in history. Gutenberg’s technical innovations remained unrivalled for almost 350 years, until industrialization of the printing industry and the digital revolution built on the advances that he began, increasing the rate at which information is spread. Despite his significance in forming the world as we know it, there has not yet been a rigorous and accessible biography of Gutenberg published in English. Written by the leading expert on Gutenberg, Füssel’s biography brings together high academic standards and thorough historical details in a highly readable text that conveys everything you need to know about the man who changed printing forever.

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351481656

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The Gutenberg Revolution by Richard Abel Pdf

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.

Author : Bruce Koscielniak
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618263516

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Johann Gutenberg Cl by Bruce Koscielniak Pdf

A history of the modern printing industry, including how paper and ink are made, looking particularly at the printing press invented by Gutenberg around 1450 but also at its precursors.

Author : Lucien Febvre,Henri-Jean Martin
Publisher : Verso
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 1859841082

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The Coming of the Book by Lucien Febvre,Henri-Jean Martin Pdf

Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1962-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802060412

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The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan Pdf

Since its first appearance in 1962, the impact of The Gutenberg Galaxy has been felt around the world. It gave us the concept of the global village; that phrase has now been translated, along with the rest of the book, into twelve languages, from Japanese to Serbo-Croat. It helped establish Marshall McLuhan as the original 'media guru.' More than 200,000 copies are in print. The reissue of this landmark book reflects the continuing importance of McLuhan's work for contemporary readers.

Author : Eamon Duffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Anglican Communion
ISBN : 0300060769

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The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Duffy Pdf

"The first part of the book reviews the main features of religious belief and practice up to 1536. Duffy examines the factors that contributed to the close lay engagement with the structures of late medieval Catholicism: the liturgy that was widely understood even though it was in Latin; the impact of literacy and printing on lay religious knowledge; the conventions and contents of lay prayer; the relation of orthodox religious practice and magic; the Mass and the cult of the saints; and lay belief about death and the afterlife. In the second part of the book Duffy explores the impact of Protestant reforms on this traditional religion, providing new evidence of popular discontent from medieval wills and parish records. He documents the widespread opposition to Protestantism during the reigns of Henry and Edward, discusses Mary's success in reestablishing Catholicism, and describes the public resistance to Elizabeth's dismantling of parochial Catholicism that did not wane until the late 1570s. A major revision to accepted thinking about the spread of the Reformation, this book will be essential reading for students of British history and religion."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980-09-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 0521299551

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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Pdf

A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.

Author : Andrew Pettegree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : 9781594204968

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Brand Luther by Andrew Pettegree Pdf

A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation's 500th anniversary When Martin Luther posted his "theses" on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months, his ideas spread across Germany, then all of Europe; within years, their author was not just famous, but infamous, responsible for catalyzing the violent wave of religious reform that would come to be known as the Protestant Reformation and engulfing Europe in decades of bloody war. Luther came of age with the printing press, and the path to glory of neither one was obvious to the casual observer of the time. Printing was, and is, a risky business--the questions were how to know how much to print and how to get there before the competition. Pettegree illustrates Luther's great gifts not simply as a theologian, but as a communicator, indeed, as the world's first mass-media figure, its first brand. He recognized in printing the power of pamphlets, written in the colloquial German of everyday people, to win the battle of ideas. But that wasn't enough--not just words, but the medium itself was the message. Fatefully, Luther had a partner in the form of artist and businessman Lucas Cranach, who together with Wittenberg's printers created the distinctive look of Luther's pamphlets. Together, Luther and Cranach created a product that spread like wildfire--it was both incredibly successful and widely imitated. Soon Germany was overwhelmed by a blizzard of pamphlets, with Wittenberg at its heart; the Reformation itself would blaze on for more than a hundred years. Publishing in advance of the Reformation's 500th anniversary, Brand Luther fuses the history of religion, of printing, and of capitalism--the literal marketplace of ideas--into one enthralling story, revolutionizing our understanding of one of the pivotal figures and eras in human history.

Author : Avery Elizabeth Hurt
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502641151

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How the Printing Press Changed the World by Avery Elizabeth Hurt Pdf

Upon its invention in the mid-1400s, the printing press instantly became a revolutionary device. It introduced literacy to the masses and led Europe out of the Middle Ages. This book explores the press' exciting history, the social and political conditions in place at the time Johannes Gutenberg invented it, and the changes the invention wrought afterward. It traces the evolution of moveable type and information dissemination up to modern electronic communications technology, examining the positive and negative effects of these developments, both in the past and on democracy and humankind today. This book will give readers a new appreciation for the written word, whether it is printed on paper or displayed on a screen.

Author : John Man
Publisher : New York : Wiley
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110430274

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Gutenberg by John Man Pdf

Gutenberg, simply put, helped found the Modern Age.".

Author : Earl George John Spencer Spencer,Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Incunabula
ISBN : MINN:31951001674010Y

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Bibliotheca Spenceriana ... by Earl George John Spencer Spencer,Thomas Frognall Dibdin Pdf

Author : Margaret Leslie Davis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698409804

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The Lost Gutenberg by Margaret Leslie Davis Pdf

“A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile’s hunt, greed and betrayal.” – The New York Times Book Review "An addictive and engaging look at the ‘competitive, catty and slightly angst-ridden’ heart of the world of book collecting.” - The Houston Chronicle The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enough to own it. For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible--of which there are fewer than 50 in existence--represents the ultimate prize. Here, Margaret Leslie Davis recounts five centuries in the life of one copy, from its creation by Johannes Gutenberg, through the hands of monks, an earl, the Worcestershire sauce king, and a nuclear physicist to its ultimate resting place, in a steel vault in Tokyo. Estelle Doheny, the first woman collector to add the book to her library and its last private owner, tipped the Bible onto a trajectory that forever changed our understanding of the first mechanically printed book. The Lost Gutenberg draws readers into this incredible saga, immersing them in the lust for beauty, prestige, and knowledge that this rarest of books sparked in its owners. Exploring books as objects of obsession across centuries, this is a must-read for history buffs, book collectors, seekers of hidden treasures, and anyone who has ever craved a remarkable book--and its untold stories.

Author : Douglas Crawford McMurtrie,Don Farran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Printers
ISBN : 1258009560

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Wings for Words by Douglas Crawford McMurtrie,Don Farran Pdf