Screen LibraryGutenberg's Europe : the book and the invention of Western modernity /
"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&#...
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Polity,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English French |
| Edition: | English edition. |
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| Summary: |
"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 |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780745672571 0745672574 9780745672588 0745672582 |
| Index Number: | Z126 |
| CLC: | TS8-09 |
| Call Number: | TS8-09/B236 |