Author : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107632757
Summarises the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops and discusses how printing affected major cultural movements.
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
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Author : Marina Frasca-Spada
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2000-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521659390
This book, published in 2000, examines the intersection between science and books from early medieval times to the nineteenth century.
Author : Alison M. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1317884051
First published in 1988, Alison Brown's The Renaissance soon established itself as one of the most popular and useful books on this complex topic. For this expanded Second Edition the author has rewritten the text entirely in the light of the wealth of literature published over the past decade. It contains two new chapters, one on the rise of lordships and the impact of the Black Death and one on Renaissance theatre. As ever, the main focus of the book is on the influence of classical ideas on Italy, and although Florence is still central to the book its uniqueness is now viewed more critically.
Author : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 1980-09-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780521299558
A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.
Author : Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0429584237
Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. The book presents the argument that the pragmatic medieval view of the natural world of animals and plants, existed simply to serve medieval society. It discusses the medieval concept of animals as food, labour, and sport and addresses how the biblical charge of assuming dominion over animals and plants, was rooted in the medieval sensibility of control. The book also looks at the idea of plants and animals as not only pragmatic, but as allegories within the medieval world, utilizing animals to draw morality tales, which were viewed with as much importance as scientific information. This book provides a unique and interesting look at the everyday medieval world.
Author : Hendrik D.L. Vervliet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401188025
The history of printing, books, and libraries, is confined only to a limited extent within the boundaries of individual countries. There are, indeed, few historical developments which have played a more universal role, in reaction against all kinds of particularism, than type design, printing, book production, publishing, illustration, binding, librarianship, journal ism, and related subjects. Their history should be assessed and studied primarily in an international, not in a local, context. The bibliographical resources, however, which the historian of these sub jects has at his disposal correspond hardly at all to the essentially inter national character of the object of his studies. Since the appearance of the retrospective bibliography of BIG MORE and WYMAN, covering the subject comprehensively up to r88o, the only current bibliography has been the lnternationale Bibliographie des Buck-und Bi bliothekswesens. Covering a representative part of newly published liter ature, it appeared from rgz8, but did not survive the Second World War. More recently, several useful, but limited, bibliographies have appeared.
Author : Andrew Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351878956
In the 25 years since the last edition of Thornton and Tully’s Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors was published, scientific publishing has mushroomed, developed new forms, and the academic discipline and popular appreciation of the history of science have grown apace. This fourth edition discusses these changes and ponders the implications of developments in publishing at the end of the twentieth century, while concentrating its gaze upon the dissemination of scientific ideas and knowledge from Antiquity to the industrial age. In this shift of focus it departs from previous editions, and for the first time a chapter on Islamic science is included. Recurrent themes in several of the ten essays in the present volume are the definition of ’science’ itself, and its transmutation by publishing media and the social context. Two essays on the collecting of scientific books provide a counterpoint, and the book is grounded on a rigorous chapter on bibliographies. The timely publication of Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors comes at the coincidence of the advent of electronic publishing and the millennium, a dramatic moment at which to take stock.
Author : J.E. Murdoch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401017816
Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Philosophy, Science, and Technology in the Middle Ages - September 1973
Author : Matthew McLean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1317037170
Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. First published in 1544 it went through thirty-five editions and was published in five languages, making it one of the most important books of the Reformation period. Beginning with a biographical study of Sebastian Münster, his life and the range of his scholarly work, this book then moves on to discuss the genre of cosmography. The bulk of the book, however, deals with the Cosmographia itself, offering a close reading of the 1550 Latin edition (the last and definitive edition worked upon by Münster). By analysing the contents of the Cosmographia it attempts to recreate how the world of the sixteenth century appeared to a scholar living in Basel, and understand what he saw and heard. Through this examination of Münster, his publications and scholarly networks, the conflicts and continuities between medieval scholarly traditions and the widening horizons of the sixteenth century are explored and revealed. Of interest to scholars of humanist culture, the Reformation and book history, this ambitious work throws into relief previously overlooked aspects of the intellectual and religious culture of the time.
