The Gutenberg revolution
Subtitle: a history of print culture
By: Richard Abel
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781412818575
Subjects: Origin and antecedents; History; Printing; Western Civilization; Intellectual life
Description: "Richard Abel follows the radical cultural impact of the printing revolution from the eighth century to the Renaissance, addressing the viability of the new Christian/Classical culture. Although this culture proved too fragile to endure, those who salvaged it managed to preserve elements of the Classical substance together with the Bible and all the writings of the Church Fathers. The cultural upsurge of the Renaissance (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries), which resulted in part from Gutenberg's invention, is a major focus of this book. Abel aims to delineate how the cultural revolution was shaped by the invention of printing. He evaluates its impact on the rapid reorientation and acceleration of the cultural evolution in the West. This book provides insight into the history of the printed word, the roots of modern-day mass book production, and the promise of the electronic revolution." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: A brief account of the history of the culture of the West to 1450; title: Gutenberg's printing revolution and the cultural revolution of the fifteenth century; title: The spread of printing and its consequences in the sixteenth century; title: The cultural triumph of the seventeenth century and the role of print therein.