RT Book
T1 Printing and prophecy: prognostication and media change, 1450 - 1550
T2 Cultures of knowledge in the Early Modern World
A1 Green, Jonathan 1970-
LA English
PP Ann Arbor
PB University of Michigan Press
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/896606007
AB 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 book---not the Gutenberg Bible, but the Sibyl's Prophecy, printed by Gutenberg two years earlier and known today only from a single page---over the next century were perennial best sellers for many printers, and they provide the modern observer with a unique way to study the history and inner workings of the print medium. The very popularity of these works, often published as affordable booklets, raised fears of social unrest. Printers therefore had to meet customer demand while at the same time channeling readers' reactions along approved paths
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and indexes
CN BR115.P8
SN 0472027581
SN 0472900749
SN 9780472027583
SN 9780472900749
K1 Books
K1 Predictive astrology : History
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K1 Prophecy : Christianity : History
K1 Prophecy : Christianity
K1 Books : Europe, German-speaking : History : 1450-1600
K1 European history