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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (1923–2016)

Autor/a de The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein was born Elizabeth Ann Lewisohn on October 11, 1923 in Manhattan, New York. She received a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1944 and master's and doctoral degrees in history from Harvard University. She taught at American University in Washington before joining the mostra'n més faculty at the University of Michigan, where she taught until her retirement in 1988. She wrote several books during her lifetime including The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe, The First Professional Revolutionist, Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press From the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution, and Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending. She died on January 31, 2016 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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A little dense at times but by far the best text on printing history I've read to date.
 
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Pen_neh | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Jul 16, 2023 |
This is a magisterial study, and the first major one, of the impact the printing press made on its introduction to Europe. Essential reading for anyone who wants to learn about the differences between print and manuscript culture.
 
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jsburbidge | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Feb 5, 2015 |
Really enjoyed this, and I see why it became a must-read for the digerati. The book is fueled by the frustration that, on the one hand, historians say that printing led to immense changes in Europea's culture, and on the other hand, ignore the specifics of printing's impact in more detailed histories of the Reformation, later Renaissance, and scientific revolution. What makes it so thought provoking is that she has a real sensibility to network effects (avant la lettre), understanding how books and printed matter provided the material for a different sorts of interaction, and wider networks of interaction, between people in the Republic of Letters. This approach or point-of-view is what is generalizable to thinking about the impact of the Internet. Of course I also loved the details on the strategies of the earliest publisher/printers, including Platinus (his prints now on show at Singapore's National Museum) and Peter Schoeffer. (Is it a sign??)… (més)
 
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Katong | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Apr 16, 2012 |

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