Jonathan (Hrsg.) Sawday

The Renaissance Computer

Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print

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In the fifteenth century the printing press was the 'new technology'. The first ever information revolution began with the advent of the printed book, enabling Renaissance scholars to formulate new ways of organising and disseminating knowledge. As early as 1500 there were already 20 million books in circulation in Europe. How did this rapid explosion of ideas impact upon the evolution of new disciplines? The Renaissance Computer looks at the fascinating development of new methods of information storage and retrieval which took place at the very beginning of print culture. And it asks some crucial questions about the intellectual conditions o… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Rhodes, Neil (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-134-59980-6
EAN: 9781134599806
Produktnummer: 18413205
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 18'898 KB

Über den Autor

Neil Rhodes is Reader in English Literature at the university of St Andrews. His previous publications include The Power of Eloquence and English Renaissance Literature (1992), John Donne: Selected Prose (1987), and Elizabethan Grotesque (1980). Jonathan Sawday is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Strathclyde University. He is author of The Body Emblazoned (1995), and co-editor of Literature and the English Civil War.