The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516)
Author | : N.L. Brann |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004474021 |
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Author | : N.L. Brann |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004474021 |
Author | : Johannes Trithemius |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Jeremy M. Norman |
Publisher | : Norman Publishing |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780930405878 |
From Gutenberg to the Internet presents 63 original readings from the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications arranged thematically by chapters. Most of the readings record basic discoveries from the 1830s through the 1960s that laid the foundation of the world of digital information in which we live. These readings, some of which are illustrated, trace historic steps from the early nineteenth century development of telegraph systems---the first data networks---through the development of the earliest general-purpose programmable computers and the earliest software, to the foundation in 1969 of ARPANET, the first national computer network that eventually became the Internet. The readings will allow you to review early developments and ideas in the history of information technology that eventually led to the convergence of computing, data networking, and telecommunications in the Internet. The editor has written a lengthy illustrated historical introduction concerning the impact of the Internet on book culture. It compares and contrasts the transition from manuscript to print initiated by Gutenberg's invention of printing by moveable type in the 15th century with the transition that began in the mid-19th century from a print-centric world to the present world in which printing co-exists with various electronic media that converged to form the Internet. He also provided a comprehensive and wide-ranging annotated timeline covering selected developments in the history of information technology from the year 100 up to 2004, and supplied introductory notes to each reading. Some introductory notes contain supplementary illustrations.
Author | : Daniel Wakelin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2014-11-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107076226 |
An authoritative account of what manuscripts and their corrections reveal about medieval attitudes to books, language and literature.
Author | : Benito Rial Costas |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2012-11-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9004235744 |
This volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the 15th and 16th centuries through a number of specific case studies.
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Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Author | : Brian Patrick McGuire |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2018-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047409078 |
This guide to the life and writings of Jean Gerson (1363-1429) provides the reader with a state-of-the-art evaluation of the place of this central theologian and church reformer in the transition from medieval to early modern culture, spirituality and religion.
Author | : David A. King |
Publisher | : Franz Steiner Verlag |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Astrolabes |
ISBN | : 9783515076401 |
This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an ancient Greek shorthand, first appeared in early-13th-century England, brought from Athens by an English monk. A second, more useful version, due to Cistercian monks, is first attested in the late 13th century in what is today the border country between Belgium and France: with this any number up to 9999 can be represented by a single cipher. The ciphers were used in scriptoria - for the foliation of manuscripts, for writing year-numbers, preparing indexes and concordances, numbering sermons and the like, and outside the scriptoria - for marking the scales on an astronomical instrument, writing year-numbers in astronomical tables, and for incising volumes on wine-barrels. Related notations were used in medieval and Renaissance shorthands and coded scripts. This richly-illustrated book surveys the medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in which the ciphers occur, and takes a close look at an intriguing astrolabe from 14th-century Picardy marked with ciphers. With Indices. "Mit Kings luzider Beschreibung und Bewertung der einzelnen Funde und ihrer Beziehungen wird zugleich die Forschungsgeschichte - die bis dato durch Widerspruechlichkeit und Diskontinuit�t gepr�gt ist - umfassend aufgearbeitet." Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik.
Author | : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 1980-09-30 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780521299558 |
A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.
Author | : Daniel Hobbins |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2012-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812202295 |
Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as it searches for a compelling narrative to tell the story of his era. Daniel Hobbins argues for a new understanding of Gerson as a man of letters actively managing the publication of his works in a period of rapid expansion in written culture. More broadly, Hobbins casts Gerson as a mirror of the complex cultural and intellectual shifts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In contrast to earlier theologians, Gerson took a more humanist approach to reading and to authorship. He distributed his works, both Latin and French, to a more diverse medieval public. And he succeeded in reaching a truly international audience of readers within his lifetime. Through such efforts, Gerson effectively embodies the aspirations of a generation of writers and intellectuals. Removed from the narrow confines of late scholastic theology and placed into a broad interdisciplinary context, his writings open a window onto the fascinating landscape of fifteenth-century Europe. The picture of late medieval culture that emerges from this study is neither a specter of decaying scholasticism nor a triumphalist narrative of budding humanism and reform. Instead, Hobbins describes a period of creative and dynamic growth, when new attitudes toward writing and debate demanded and eventually produced new technologies of the written word.