The information revolution in early modern Europe
""The fear of obliteration obsessed the societies of early modern Europe," Roger Chartier writes in Inscription and Erasure. "To quell their anxiety, they preserved in writing traces of the past, remembrances of the dead, the glory of the living, and texts of all kinds that were...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | New approaches to European history
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Information
/ Communication
/ History 1500-1800
B Europe / Paper / Written communication / Knowledge organization / Information technology / Mass media / History 1450-1750 |
| Further subjects: | B
Europe
Intellectual life
B Information resources management (Europe) History B Written communication (Europe) History B Information science (Europe) History B Printing (Europe) History B Papermaking (Europe) History B Information organization (Europe) History B Europe / Generals / HISTORY |
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| Summary: | ""The fear of obliteration obsessed the societies of early modern Europe," Roger Chartier writes in Inscription and Erasure. "To quell their anxiety, they preserved in writing traces of the past, remembrances of the dead, the glory of the living, and texts of all kinds that were not supposed to disappear."1 The efforts they made to confront this anxiety, however, paradoxically generated a new, related anxiety: the urge to preserve, record, and ward off obliteration frequently led to an unmanageable accumulation of texts, records, and ephemera of wildly varying utility and quality. Most of this was paper, which was not a new technology in early modern Europe but one whose use proliferated and diversified in these centuries. Paper, as never before, became the transactional medium; the repository of personal, communal, and institutional memory; the avenue of communication; the lifeblood of bureaucracies; and the foundation and residue of learning. Early modern Europeans, whether or not they sought to, and whether or not they were pleased with or trusted the new reality, put paper inscribed with text at the center of their lives"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 284-330 |
| ISBN: | 1107147530 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781316556177 |