Printing and Prophecy : Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 / Jonathan Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Jonathan, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 printing 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.

Contents:

chapter 1 The Sibyl's Book 15

chapter 2 Prophets in Print 39

chapter 3 Prophets and Their Readers 62

chapter 4 Visions of Visions: Functions of the Image in Printed Prophecy 85

chapter 5 Practica teutsch 109

chapter 6 Fear, Floods, and the Paradox of the Practica teütsch 131.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100399

ISBN:

9780472117833

OCLC:

1030816193

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access