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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cox
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
In 1979, Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the 15th-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarizing the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science. Also included is a later essay which aims to demonstrate that the cumulative processes created by printing are likely to persist despite the recent development of new communications technologies.
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- 16-05-24
Not a great performance
The book itself is a classic of this field of scholarship, but the performance, though professional enough, is not of the best. Admittedly it is probably not easy to read a work of 20th century academia so as to engage the reader — still, the narrator’s atonality is disheartening. It is not that his tone is flat or unenthusiastic, but that he reads every single sentence in the same identical way. There are also a few embarrassing mispronunciations — Italian names such as “piccolomini” (spoken as if with a soft “c”), and “sui generis” pronounced as if it were French (!). These are infrequent and are unlikely to impact the listener’s pleasure; the repetitiveness of the reader’s speech-patterns, however, is sure to.
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