200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust cultural achievement, would have been impossible without Gutenberg's gift and... Read more
1: A Brief Account of the History of the Culture of the West to 1450; 2: Gutenberg’s Printing Revolution and the Cultural Revolution of the Last Half of the Fifteenth Century; 3: The Spread of Printing and Its Consequences in the Sixteenth Century; 4: The Cultural Triumph of the Seventeenth Century and the Role of Print Therein; 5: Epilogue: Closing Remarks and Summary
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Richard Abel
