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Gutenberg and the impact of printing

Author: Stephan Füssel
Publisher: Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., ©2005.
Edition/Format:  Book : English : English edView all editions and formats
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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 Fussel here analyses the earliest 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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Biographies
Named Person: Johann Gutenberg; Johann Gutenberg
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Stephan Füssel
ISBN: 0754635376 9780754635376
OCLC Number: 54356533
Notes: Originally published in German under the title: Gutenberg und seine Wirkung. Frankfurt am Main : Insel, 1999.
Description: 216 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Gutenberg : his life and work. The course of Gutenberg's life --
Bringing the technical inventions together --
The "work of the books" : the 42-line Bible --
The Burgos copy of the Bible --
The Göttingen copy of the Bible --
Jobbing printing in long runs --
Indulgences and propaganda against the Turks --
School book --
Further ephemera --
The 36-line Bible --
The Catholicon --
Gutenberg's final years --
The successor workshop of Fust and Schoeffer --
The spread of printing. Rome --
Venice --
Paris --
The book in Britain --
Printing and humanism. Renaissance humanism --
Editions of classical authors --
Early humanism in Germany --
Printing in Greek and Hebrew --
Vadian and the provision of teaching texts --
A few dissenting voices --
Popular instruction in the vernacular. Popular books --
Encyclopedias --
Fables --
The Ulm Aesop --
Practical books --
Broadsides and the "latest news" --
News-sheets --
A broadside view of the New World --
Emperor Maximilian I --
The pamphlets of Maximilian I --
Maximilian's concern for a memorial --
Printing and the Reformation --
German bibles before Luther --
Luther's career --
The main texts of the Reformers --
Pamphlets --
Luther's translation principles --
Bible translations from 1522 to 1546 --
Gutenberg goes electronic. The on-going media revolution --
Print on demand --
Manuscripts on screen --
Electronic ink.
Other Titles: Gutenberg und seine Wirkung.
Responsibility: Stephan Füssel ; translated from the German by Douglas Martin.
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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  Read more...

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schema:reviewBody""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 Fussel here analyses the earliest 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." "Stephan Fussel traces the modern resonances of Gutenberg's invention, which persisted in virtually unchanged from 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 Fussel shows, the mass diffusion of information and the related communication revolution which began with Gutenberg continue unabated."--BOOK JACKET."
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