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Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity
Frédéric Barbier
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Description for Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity
Hardcover. Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication D what we call the media. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3J; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 618.
Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication what we call the media. In this book, historian Frédéric Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg�s invention of the printing press in the mid fifteenth century. In great detail and with a wealth of historical evidence, Barbier charts the developments in manuscript culture in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and shows how the steadily increasing need for written documents initiated the processes of change which culminated with Gutenberg. The fifteenth ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745672571
SKU
V9780745672571
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About Frédéric Barbier
Frédéric Barbier is Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études, Paris.
Reviews for Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity
"Combining meticulous scholarship with persuasive comparisons between the print and the digital revolutions, Frédéric Barbier has made the most important contribution to the field since Elizabeth Eisenstein�s The Printing Press as an Agent of Change." Peter Burke, Cambridge University "The great strength of this book is that it roots Gutenberg�s invention so firmly in the mediaeval craft ... Read more