The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

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Author: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

ISBN-10: 0521607744

ISBN-13: 9780521607742

Category: Books & Illuminated Manuscripts

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New illustrated and abridged edition surveys the communications revolution of the fifteenth century.

PrefacePt. IThe Emergence of Print Culture in the West1An unacknowledged revolution32Defining the initial shift123Some features of print culture424The expanding Republic of Letters92Pt. IIInteraction With Other Developments5The permanent Renaissance: mutation of a classical revival1116Western Christendom disrupted: resetting the stage for the Reformation1487The book of nature transformed: printing and the rise of modern science1878Conclusion: Scripture and nature transformed255Selected reading279Index293