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Print and Culture in the Renaissance: Essays on the Advent of Printing in Europe

Gerald P. Tyson and Sylvia S. Wagonheim, eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1986. 266 pages, index.

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These essays address the impact of print on the cultural life of the Renaissance from the vantage points of art, literature, religion, science, and music. Included are investigations of writers, scientists, politicians, and printers; of typography, iconography, and musical notation; and of readers' complex relations with printed material. The unifying perspective of this volume is that the transformation from an oral to a print culture was full of ambiguity and contradiction.

Contents:

• Gerald P. Tyson and Sylvia S. Wagonheim, "Introduction"
• Fredson Bowers, "A Search for Authority: The Investigation of Shakespeare's Printed Texts"
  
• William A. Wallace, "Galileo's Sources: Manuscripts or Printed Works?"
  
• Owen Gingerich, "Copernicus's De revolutionibus: An Example of Renaissance Scientific Printing"
  
• Steven Rowan, "Jurists and the Printing Press in Germany: The First Century"
  
• Arthur J. Slavin, "The Gutenberg Galaxy and the Tudor Revolution"
  
• Kyle C. Sessions, "Song Pamphlets: Media Changeover in Sixteenth-Century Publicization"
  
• Christiane Andersson, "Popular Imagery in German Reformation Broadsheets"
  
• Keith P.F. Moxey, "The Function of Peasant Imagery in German Graphics of the Sixteenth Century: Festive Peasants as Instruments of Repressive Humor"
  
• Charles Talbot, "Prints and the Definitive Image"
  
• John N. Wall, Jr., "The Reformation in England and the Typographical Revolution: 'By this printing... the doctrine of the Gospel soundeth to all nations'"
  
• Stanley Boorman, "Early Music Printing:Working for a Specialized Market"
  
• Richard C. Newton, "Making Books from Leaves: Poets Become Editors"