Printing and prophecy : prognostication and media change, 1450-1550 / Jonathan Green.
2012
BR115.P8 G74 2012 (Mapit)
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Printing and prophecy : prognostication and media change, 1450-1550 / Jonathan Green.
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9780472117833 (alk. paper)
0472117831 (alk. paper)
9780472027583 (e-book)
0472027581 (e-book)
0472117831 (alk. paper)
9780472027583 (e-book)
0472027581 (e-book)
Publication Details
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2012.
Language
English
Description
ix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number
BR115.P8 G74 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
261.5/1309409024
Summary
"The focus on prophecy as a phenomenon of communication and on its interaction with the medium of print explains some of what may seem glaring omissions in this book. Because this study is primarily concerned with publications for broad audiences, it will spend relatively little time on the theoretical treatises of university personnel and other members of the intellectual elite....The primarcy focus on the German-speaking regions is partially justified by the need to begin with Gutenberg in Mainz and by the similarly advanced state of German bibliographical indexing for both the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."--Introduction, p. 7-8.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index.
Series
Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world.
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Table of Contents
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
Appendix : prophecy and prognostication in print, 1450-1550.
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
Appendix : prophecy and prognostication in print, 1450-1550.