The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800Verso, 1997 - 378 Seiten Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe. |
Inhalt
| 29 | |
| 45 | |
| 77 | |
The Book as a Commodity | 109 |
The Little World of the Book | 128 |
The Geography of the Book | 167 |
The Book Trade | 216 |
The Book as a Force for Change | 248 |
Notes | 333 |
Index | 355 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
16th century Aldus Antwerp appeared Augsburg authors Basel became began Bible book trade Books of Hours books printed brought centre Church classical Cologne compositor copies cost developed early écus editions England engraved Erasmus especially established Estienne example fair famous founts France Frankfurt French Geneva German Greek Guillaume Gutenberg Haguenau Hebrew heretical Histoire humanist illustrated books important incunabula Italian Italy Jean Johann Joost Bade journeymen Koberger l'Imprimerie language large number later Latin Leipzig letters literature livres Luther Lyons Mainz manuscripts master merchants mills Nuremberg organised paper papermakers Paris Parlement period Pierre Plantin popular printed book printers printers and booksellers printing press produced published Reformation religious reprinted Robert Estienne roman Schoeffer scholars script sell sheets Siècle Simon de Colines sold soon Sorbonne Spain Spanish specialised Strasbourg technique texts tion town translation Troyes University of Paris Venice vernacular wood-cuts workshop writing xylography
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 232 - Judicature in the Second Half of the 16th and the First Half of the 17th Century, in: APH 66, 1992, S.
Seite 249 - ... clearly: One fact must not be lost sight of: the printer and the bookseller worked above all and from the beginning for profit. The story of the first joint enterprise, Fust and Schoeffer, proves that. Like their modern counterparts, 15th-century publishers only financed the kind of book they felt would sell enough copies to show a profit in a reasonable time. We should not therefore be surprised to find that the immediate effect of printing was merely to further increase the circulation of those...
Seite 166 - All those who speculated seriously about politics at the end of the 1 8th and the beginning of the...
Seite 162 - Qui, degoutes de gloire et d'argent affames, Mettent leur Apollon aux gages d'un libraire Et font d'un art divin un metier mercenaire.
Seite 76 - To govern, it is necessary to spread knowledge of the laws and the books so as to satisfy reason and to reform men's evil nature; in this way, peace and order may be maintained. Our country is in the East beyond the sea and books from China are scarce. Wood blocks wear out easily and, besides, it is difficult to engrave all the books in the world. I want letters to be made from copper to be used for printing so that more books may be made available. This would produce benefits too extensive to measure.
Seite 10 - ... one of the most potent agents at the disposal of western civilisation in bringing together the scattered ideas of representative thinkers. It rendered vital service to research by immediately transmitting results from one researcher to another; and speedily and conveniently, without laborious effort or unsupportable cost, it assembled...
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