Cultures of communication : theologies of media in early modern Europe and beyond / edited by Helmut Puff, Ulrike Strasser, and Christopher Wild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puff, Helmut, author, editor.

Contributor:

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, issuing body.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, issuing body.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Strasser, Ulrike, 1964- editor.

Wild, Christopher J., 1967- editor.

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 25.

The UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--Europe--History--16th century.

Intercultural communication.

Communication--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Communication.

Mass media--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Mass media.

Theology--Europe--History--16th century.

Theology.

Reformation.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Toronto] : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, [2017]

Summary:

"Contrary to the historiographical commonplace "no Reformation without print" Cultures of Communication examines media in the early modern world through the lens of the period's religious history. Looking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the early modern cultures of communication. The authors assembled here urge us to understand the Reformation as a response to the perceived crisis of religious communication in late medieval Europe. In addition, they explore the novel demands placed on European media ecology by the acceleration and intensification of global interconnectedness in the early modern period. As the Christian evangelizing impulse began to propel growing numbers of Europeans outward to the Americas and Asia, theories and practices of religious communication had to be reformed to accommodate an array of new communicative constellations across distances, languages, cultures."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The absolute medium : Nicholas of Cusa on the mediality of Christ / Christian Kiening

Fragmentation and presence : Reformation debates and cultural theory / Lee Palmer Wandel

"Here I stand" : face-to-face communication and print media in the early Reformation / Marcus Sandl

Mediated immediacies in Thomas Muntzer's theology / Helmut Puff

"Sing unto the Lord" : an anthropology of singing and not-singing in the late Reformation / Era Susan C. Karant-Nunn

Reading images, printing voices : simulation of media and epistemic reflection in German baroque literature / Daniel Weidner

Divine messengers and divine messages : angelic media in early modern Hispanic America / Andrew Redden

On reading missionary correspondence : Jesuit theologians on the spiritual benefits of a new genre / Markus Friedrich

Early modern translation theories as mission theories : a case study of José de Acosta : De procuranda indorum salute (1588) / Renate Dürr

Apocalyptic times in a "world without end" : the Straits of Magellan around 1600 / Susanna Burghartz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781442630376

144263037X

OCLC:

950450591

Publisher Number:

99993245741