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Gutenberg's Europe, the book and the invention of Western modernity, Frédéric Barbier ; translated by Jean Birrell

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-301) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Gutenberg's Europe

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Frédéric Barbier ; translated by Jean Birrell

the book and the invention of Western modernity

Machine generated contents note: Part one. Gutenberg before Gutenberg -- Chapter 1. The preconditions for a new economy of the media -- The key space of modernity: the town -- The market in education -- The emergence of the political -- Chapter 2. The economy of the book -- Manuscript production -- Change: the objects and practices -- Chapter 3. The birth of the market -- The market and its regulation -- The religious paradigm, or, The emergence of the masses -- Writing: work and the professions -- Part 2. The age of start-ups -- Chapter 4. The development and logics of innovation -- Paper and papermaking -- Xylography -- Punches, forms and moulds -- Chapter 5. Gutenberg and the invention of printing -- Historical portrait of a city -- Strasbourg -- The return to Mainz -- Chapter 6. Innovation -- Techniques: innovation in processes -- Practices -- The society of the workshops -- The invention of the graphosphere -- Part three. The first media revolution -- Chapter 7. Printing conquers the world -- The spread of the innovation -- Ranking the cities -- Conjunctures and specializations: the market and innovation -- Chapter 8. The nature of text -- The book system -- The meaning of the text -- The 'book-machine' -- Chapter 9. The media explosion -- A new paradigm: production and reproduction -- The Reformation and printing -- Regulation: imposing order on books -- Printing and governments -- Conclusion -- Chronologies -- Semiology and virtuality -- Gutenberg's Europe -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Index