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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2018
Print publication year:
2005
Online ISBN:
9780511819230
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511819230
Subjects:
Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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Although the importance of the advent of printing for the Western world has long been recognized, it was Elizabeth Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This illustrated and abridged edition gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. After summarizing the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, it goes on to discuss how printing affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science. This new edition includes a new essay discussing recent controversies provoked by the first edition and reaffirms the thesis that the advent of printing entailed a communications revolution. Fully-illustrated and annotated, the book argues that the cumulative processes set in motion with the advent of printing are likely to persist despite the recent development of new communications technologies.

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‘This is a good and important book … the author's clear and forceful style makes it a pleasure to read.’

Source: The New York Review of Books

'… the first comprehensive account of the difference made by the introduction and rapid spread of printing and printers' workshops. … a useful introduction to the kinds of preliminary question which students might be encouraged to ask …'

Katy Hooper - University of Liverpool

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