Printing and Prophecy : : Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 / / Jonathan Green.

Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed...

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Place / Publishing House:Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2011.
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world.
Physical Description:1 online resource (279 p.)
Notes:This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: printing and prophecy
  • The Sibyl's book
  • Prophets in print
  • Prophets and their readers
  • Visions of visions: functions of the image in printed prophecy
  • Practica teütsch
  • Fear, floods, and the paradox of the practica teütsch
  • Conclusion: the prophetic reader.