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Gutenberg and the Impact of Printing
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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 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.
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Index
(References to illustrations are in bold)
Aachen 13
Accademia Romana 104
Agricola, Rudolf 97
Albertus Magnus, St 128
Albi, printing 66
Amerbach of Basle 74
America, discovery 152
Anglicus, Bartholomaeus, De proprietatibus rerum 67
Andreae, Hieronymus 128
Anshelm, Thomas, printer 104
De rudimentis Hebraicis 136
Apuleius, Golden Ass 79
Aristotle
Rhetoric 121
Works (in Greek) 133
Association of German Typefounders 195
Astronomical Calendar 31, 32
Augsburg, printing 10, 60, 65, 113, 114
Augustine, St, De dvitate 60
Aurifaber, Johann, Table-Talk 159
Avicenna, Canon medicinae 103
B-36 type 123–4
B-42 type 26, 27, 35, 50
Bagellardi, Paulo 127
Baghdad 14
Balbus, Johann, Catholicon 47, 50–51
Bämberg, printing 17, 26, 31, 49, 59, 60, 123
Bamler, Johann, printer 114
Basle, Council of 9
bastarda type 162
Bechtermünze, Nikolaus 52
Benedictine monastery, Subiaco 60
Benedictines 9
Berthold of Henneberg 110–11
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- GUTENBERG – HIS LIFE AND WORK
- THE SPREAD OF PRINTING
- PRINTING AND HUMANISM
- POPULAR INSTRUCTION IN THE VERNACULAR
- BROADSIDES AND THE “LATEST NEWS”
- PRINTING AND THE REFORMATION
- GUTENBERG GOES ELECTRONIC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PICTURE CREDITS
- INDEX