The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe (Complete in One Volume)
Description
This landmark study examines how the invention and spread of movable-type printing transformed communication and culture across early modern Europe. It explores the press’s profound influence on the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the standardization of languages, education, and the preservation and circulation of knowledge. Rather than treating printing as a passive medium, the book presents it as a powerful agent of historical change that reshaped intellectual life, institutions, and collective memory. Broad in scope and richly argued, it remains an essential work for understanding the cultural consequences of technological innovation.
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paperback
Cambridge University Press
Published Jan 1, 1997
794 pages
ISBN: 9780521299558
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First Published
1979
Language
eng
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