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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein | Histoire | Cambridge Paperbacks | Date de parution: 1993 | ISBN-13: 9780521447706 | Couverture: Souple | Anglais
While the importance of the advent of printing for Western civilization has long been recognized, it was Professor Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This illustrated and abridged edition is designed to give a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. It begins with a discussion of the general implications of the introduction of printing, and then explores how the shift from script to print entered into the three major movements of early modern times: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science. In this edition the illustrations are closely keyed to the text, giving the reader a keen awareness of the many startling effects of printing on Western intellectual life.
From reviews of The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
"It is strange that so revolutionary an invention as the printing press should have to wait until now for the first adequate account of its impact upon the world in which we live. We are, therefore, much indebted to Elizabeth Eisenstein for taking up the challenge and responding to it so splendidly."
The Sciences
"This is a good and important book. The author's clear and forceful style makes it a pleasure to read."
The New York Review of Books
Cover illustration: a printer's workshop, miniature, circa 1520. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.
