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Johannes Gutenberg
Die Buchdruckerkunst ist ein Faktum, yon dem ein zweiter Teil der Welt- und Kunstgeschichte datiert, welcher von dem ersten ganz verschieden ist. Goethe In den vierziger Jahren des 15. Jahrhunderts machte der Mainzer Patriziersohn Johannes Gutenberg eine Erfindung, für die die geschichtliche Entwicklung herangereift war und die ihrerseits die historischen Veränderungen beschleunigte. Sprengte sie doch die engen Grenzen der mittelalterlichen Welt und wurde revo- lutionäres Mittel der Reformation und der deutschen frühbürger- lichen Revolution. Wenig aber ist uns bekannt über das Leben des genialen Erfinders und über sein Werk. Nur spärlich fließen die Nachrichten aus in Archiven erhaltenen Urkunden und Akten, aus Zeugnissen von Zeitgenossen und aus den frühesten Druckwerken. Trotz unzähliger Bücher und Aufsätze über Leben und Werk Gutenbergs sind die Forscher in vielen wesentlichen Fragen uneins. Dieses Büchlein versucht, sich auf die wohl als gesichert geltenden Kenntnisse stützend, Gutenberg zu zeigen als genialen Techniker und begabten Schriftkünstler, dessen Erfindung die Welt eroberte und sie ver- änderte. Herrn Prof. Dr. Wußing (Leipzig) bin ich dankbar für die Ermun- terung zu diesem Bändchen, meinem Mann danke ich für zahl- reiche zweckdienliche Hinweise. Frau H. Plath für die technische Hilfe. Nicht zuletzt bin ich dem BSB B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft verbunden für die verstän"dnisvolle Zusammenarbeit. Leipzig, März 1977 Ingrid Kästner Für die YOl'licgcnde:3. \llflage wurde das Biiehlein ii!)(, l'al'bcitct. Allen, die dureh Hinweise dabei geholfen hahen, sci an dicscr Stelle herzlich gedankt.
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Gutenberg Revolution
One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust cultural achievement, would have been impossible without Gutenberg's gift and its subsequent widespread adoption across most of the world.Richard Abel follows the radical cultural impact of the printing revolution from the eighth century to the Renaissance, addressing the viability of the new Christian/Classical culture. Although this culture proved too fragile to endure, those who salvaged it managed to preserve elements of the Classical substance together with the Bible and all the writings of the Church Fathers. The cultural upsurge of the Renaissance (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries), which resulted in part from Gutenberg's invention, is a major focus of this book.Abel aims to delineate how the cultural revolution was shaped by the invention of printing. He evaluates its impact on the rapid reorientation and acceleration of the cultural evolution in the West. This book provides insight into the history of the printed word, the roots of modern-day mass book production, and the promise of the electronic revolution. It is an essential work in the history of ideas.
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Gutenberg vor Gericht; Der Mainzer Prozess um die erste gedruckte Bibel
Untersucht wird in diesem Buch ein Verfahren gegen den Erfinder der Buchdruckerkunst Johannes Gutenberg vor dem Mainzer weltlichen Gericht. Kläger war Johannes Fust, der den Druck einer Bibel finanziert hatte, der Gutenberg-Bibel, die von vielen als das schönste jemals gedruckte Buch angesehen wird. Gutenberg wurde auf Rückzahlung einer sehr hohen Summe verklagt. Gefragt wird, welche Punkte zwischen den Parteien umstritten waren und wie das Gericht jeweils entschieden hat. Die häufig vertretene Auffassung, zur Zeit des Urteils sei Gutenberg zahlungsunfähig gewesen und durch die Entscheidung ins Elend gestürzt worden, wird abgelehnt. Die Arbeit gibt detaillierten Einblick in einen Mainzer Zivilprozess um die Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts am Vorabend der Rezeption.
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Gutenberg Revolution
One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust cultural achievement, would have been impossible without Gutenberg's gift and its subsequent widespread adoption across most of the world.Richard Abel follows the radical cultural impact of the printing revolution from the eighth century to the Renaissance, addressing the viability of the new Christian/Classical culture. Although this culture proved too fragile to endure, those who salvaged it managed to preserve elements of the Classical substance together with the Bible and all the writings of the Church Fathers. The cultural upsurge of the Renaissance (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries), which resulted in part from Gutenberg's invention, is a major focus of this book.Abel aims to delineate how the cultural revolution was shaped by the invention of printing. He evaluates its impact on the rapid reorientation and acceleration of the cultural evolution in the West. This book provides insight into the history of the printed word, the roots of modern-day mass book production, and the promise of the electronic revolution. It is an essential work in the history of ideas.
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Gutenberg Revolution
In 1450, all Europe's books were handcopied and amounted to only a few thousand. By 1500 they were printed, and numbered in their millions. The invention of one man - Johann Gutenberg - had caused a revolution. Printing by movable type was a discovery waiting to happen.Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg struggled against a background of plague and religious upheaval to bring his remarkable invention to light. His story is full of paradox: his ambition was to reunite all Christendom, but his invention shattered it; he aimed to make a fortune, but was cruelly denied the fruits of his life's work. Yet history remembers him as a visionary; his discovery marks the beginning of the modern world.
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Gutenberg Elegies
A reissue of the book that first examined the future of reading and literature in the electronic age, now with a new introduction and Afterword In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on the experience of reading. Drawing on his own passionate, lifelong love of books, Birkerts examines how literature intimately shapes and nourishes the inner life. What does it mean to "hear" a book on audiotape or decipher its words in electronic form on a laptop screen? Can the world created by Henry James exist in an era defined by the work of Bill Gates? Are books as we know them--volumes printed in ink on paper, with pages to be turned as the reading of each page is completed--dead? At once a celebration of the complex pleasures of reading and a bold challenge to the information technologies of today and tomorrow, The Gutenberg Elegies is an essential volume for anyone who cares about the past and the future of books.
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