The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700
Crick, Julia C. (Editor)/ Walsham, Alexandra (Editor)
ISBN 10: 0521810639 ISBN 13: 9780521810630
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, 2003
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This volume builds upon the widening interest in the connections between culture and communication in medieval and early modern Europe. Focusing on England, it takes a critical look at the scholarly paradigm of the shift from script to print, exploring the possibilities and limitations of these media as vehicles of information and meaning. The essays examine how pen and the press were used in the spheres of religion, law, scholarship, and politics. They assess scribal activity both before and after the advent of printing, illuminating its role in recording and transmitting polemical, literary, antiquarian and utilitarian texts. They also investigate script and print in relation to the spoken word, emphasising the constant interaction and symbiosis of these three media. In sum, this collection helped to refine the boundaries between cultures of speech, manuscript and print, and to reconsider the historical fissures which they have come to represent.
About the Author: Julia Crick is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter. Alexandra Walsham is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter.
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Title: The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Brand New