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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

, Volume 1
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Cambridge University Press, Sep 30, 1980 - History - 794 pages
Originally published in two volumes, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is now issued in a paperback edition containing both volumes. The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining the general implications of the shift from script to print, and goes on to examine its part in three of the major movements of early modern times - the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.
  

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This book, and the footnotes therein, formed many a research topic for my graduate studies looking at the history of the book and the Protestant Reformation. This book was phenomenal in helping me understand this period. Read full review

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Contents

The unacknowledged revolution
3
Defining the initial shift some features of print culture
43
CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS
161
resetting the stage for
303
truths recast 329 4 Resetting the stage for the Reformation 367
367
Catholic south to Protestant north 403 7 Aspects of the new book
422
Introduction problems of periodization
453
some new trends
520
science 543 3 Galenic science revived and surpassed
566
Resetting the stage for the Copernican Revolution
575
Sponsorship and censorship of scientific publication
636
Scripture and nature transformed
683
Bibliographical index
709
General index
769
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About the author (1980)

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein is the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History (Emerita) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of many book and articles, including The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge, 1979) and Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the Eighteenth Century French Cosmopolitan Press (1992). In 2002, she was awarded the American Historial Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction.

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