The Culture of Print : : Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe / / ed. by Roger Chartier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Boureau, Alain,; Chartier, Roger,; Ducreux, Marie-Elisabeth,; Jouhaud, Christian,; Saenger, Paul,; Velay-Vallantin, Catherine,
• HerausgeberIn: Chartier, Roger,
• TeilnehmendeR: Cochrane, Lydia G.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1005
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

The leading historians who are the authors of this work offer a highly original account of one of the most important transformations in Western culture: the change brought about by the discovery and development of printing in Europe. Focusing primarily on printed matter other than books, The Culture...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• General Introduction: Print Culture
• PART I. PRINT TO CAPTURE THE IMAGINATION
• Introduction
• 1. Franciscan Piety and Voracity: Uses and Strategems in the Hagiographic Pamphlet
• 2. The Hanged Woman Miraculously Saved: An occasionnel
• 3. Tales as a Mirror: Perrault in the Bibliothèque bleue
• PART II. RELIGIOUS USES
• INTRODUCTION
• 4. Books of Hours and the Reading Habits of the Later Middle Ages
• 5. From Ritual to the Hearth: Marriage Charters in Seventeenth-Century Lyons
• 6. Reading unto Death: Books and Readers in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia
• PART III. POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND PERSUASION
• INTRODUCTION
• 7. Readability and Persuasion: Political Handbills
• 8. Books of Emblems on the Public Stage: Côté jardin and côté cour
• 9. Printing the Event: From La Rochelle to Paris
• Index