Elizabeth L Eisenstein
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation,...
Series
Occasional paper ; 10
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English