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  • Divine Art, Infernal Machine

    The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending

    Serier serie Material Texts
    There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it was welcomed as a "divine art" by Western churchmen and statesmen. Sixteenth-century Lutherans ... Læs mere

    189,36 kr.

  • Divine Art, Infernal Machine

    The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending

    Serier serie Material Texts
    There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it was welcomed as a "divine art" by Western churchmen and statesmen. Sixteenth-century Lutherans ... Læs mere

    263,00 kr.

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  • Humanly Possible

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  • History

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    There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ... Læs mere

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  • The Enlightenment

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  • The Gutenberg Parenthesis

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  • The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

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    In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected ... Læs mere

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  • Philology

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