ISBN:
0472027581
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0472900749
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9780472027583
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9780472900749
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (280 pages)
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illustrations, charts, figures, tables
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Johnston, Warren Printing and prophecy. Prognostication and media change, 1450–1550. By Jonathan Green. (Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World.) Pp. xiii+265 incl. 11 figs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. 70. 978 0 472 11783 3 2013
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Haberkern, Phillip [Rezension von: Green, Jonathan, Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550] 2013
Series Statement:
Cultures of knowledge in the Early Modern World
Keywords:
Books
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Predictive astrology History
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Predictive astrology
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Prophecy Christianity
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History
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Prophecy Christianity
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Books History
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European history
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Electronic book
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Buchproduktion
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Weissagung
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Astrologie
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Verbreitung
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Deutsches Sprachgebiet
Abstract:
Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book---not the Gutenberg Bible, but the Sibyl's Prophecy, printed by Gutenberg two years earlier and known today only from a single page---over the next century were perennial best sellers for many printers, and they provide the modern observer with a unique way to study the history and inner workings of the print medium. The very popularity of these works, often published as affordable booklets, raised fears of social unrest. Printers therefore had to meet customer demand while at the same time channeling readers' reactions along approved paths
Abstract:
Introduction: printing and prophecy -- The Sibyl's book -- Prophets in print -- Prophets and their readers -- Visions of visions: functions of the image in printed prophecy -- Practica teütsch -- Fear, floods, and the paradox of the practica teütsch -- Conclusion: the prophetic reader
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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