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Gutenberg and the impact of printing / Stephan Füssel ; translated from the German by Douglas Martin.

Title
Gutenberg and the impact of printing / Stephan Füssel ; translated from the German by Douglas Martin.
Author
Füssel, Stephan
Publication
Aldershot [England]^^; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., c2005.

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Uniform Title
Gutenberg und seine Wirkung. English
Alternative Title
Gutenberg und seine Wirkung.
Subject
  • Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468
  • Printers > Germany > Biography
  • Printing > History > Origin and antecedents
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Note
  • Originally published in German under the title: Gutenberg und seine Wirkung. Frankfurt am Main : Insel, 1999.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Gutenberg : his life and work. The course of Gutenberg's life -- Bringing the technical inventions together -- The "work of the books" : the 42-line Bible -- The Burgos copy of the Bible -- The Göttingen copy of the Bible -- Jobbing printing in long runs -- Indulgences and propaganda against the Turks -- School book -- Further ephemera -- The 36-line Bible -- The Catholicon -- Gutenberg's final years -- The successor workshop of Fust and Schoeffer -- The spread of printing. Rome -- Venice -- Paris -- The book in Britain -- Printing and humanism. Renaissance humanism -- Editions of classical authors -- Early humanism in Germany -- Printing in Greek and Hebrew -- Vadian and the provision of teaching texts -- A few dissenting voices -- Popular instruction in the vernacular. Popular books -- Encyclopedias -- Fables -- The Ulm Aesop -- Practical books -- Broadsides and the "latest news" -- News-sheets -- A broadside view of the New World -- Emperor Maximilian I -- The pamphlets of Maximilian I -- Maximilian's concern for a memorial -- Printing and the Reformation -- German bibles before Luther -- Luther's career -- The main texts of the Reformers -- Pamphlets -- Luther's translation principles -- Bible translations from 1522 to 1546 -- Gutenberg goes electronic. The on-going media revolution -- Print on demand -- Manuscripts on screen -- Electronic ink.
ISBN
0754635376 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2004001759
OCLC
  • 54356533
  • SCSB-11053603
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library