Overview
- Places print culture in the context of emerging technologies in the long sixteenth century
- Covers a wide range of Renaissance texts, including military treatises, broadside ballads, stage plays, satires, works of natural philosophy, and maps
- Appeals to scholars and students of Renaissance literary studies, print culture, the history of technology, and media ecology
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Part I
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Part II
Keywords
- the printing press
- History of Gunpowder
- Early Modern Technology
- The Magnetic Compass
- Renaissance literary culture
- Renaissance print culture
- gunpowder warfare
- Shakespeare
- John Donne
- Petrarch's humanism
- Technology and Romance
- technology and culture
- media ecology
- Don Quixote
- François Rabelais
- Elizabethan drama
- early modern cartography
- technological determinism
- Jacobean theater
- William Shakespeare
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Renaissance Responses to Technological Change
Authors: Sheila J. Nayar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96899-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96898-8Published: 07 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96899-5Published: 29 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 366
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, History of Technology, Literary History, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of the Book