The information revolution in early modern Europe

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Titel
The information revolution in early modern Europe
verantwortlich
Dover, Paul M. (VerfasserIn)
veröffentlicht
Cambridge, New York, NY, Port Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore: Cambridge University Press, 2021
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Teil von
New approaches to European history
Erscheint auch als
Dover, Paul M., 1969 - , The information revolution in early modern Europe, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021, 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 342 Seiten)
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""The fear of obliteration obsessed the societies of early modern Europe," Roger Chartier writes in Inscription and Erasure. "To quell their anxiety, they preserved in writing traces of the past, remembrances of the dead, the glory of the living, and texts of all kinds that were not supposed to disappear."1 The efforts they made to confront this anxiety, however, paradoxically generated a new, related anxiety: the urge to preserve, record, and ward off obliteration frequently led to an unmanageable accumulation of texts, records, and ephemera of wildly varying utility and quality. Most of this was paper, which was not a new technology in early modern Europe but one whose use proliferated and diversified in these centuries. Paper, as never before, became the transactional medium; the repository of personal, communal, and institutional memory; the avenue of communication; the lifeblood of bureaucracies; and the foundation and residue of learning. Early modern Europeans, whether or not they sought to, and whether or not they were pleased with or trusted the new reality, put paper inscribed with text at the center of their lives"--
Umfang
xi, 342 Seiten; Illustrationen
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
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  • Geschichte
    • Neuere Geschichte
      • Neuere Geschichte insgesamt
        • Darstellungen
          • Einzelbeiträge zur Geschichte des Gesamtzeitraumes
BK-Notation
06.18 Schrift, Schreiben
06.01 Geschichte des Informations- und Dokumentationswesens
15.34 Europäische Geschichte 1492-1789
15.07 Kulturgeschichte
DDC-Notation
020.94
ISBN
9781107147539
9781316602034
DOI
10.1017/9781316556177