Printing and prophecy : prognostication and media change, 1450-1550 /

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Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Green, Jonathan, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, ©2012.
Series:Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world.
Subjects:
1450-1600
Prophecy > Christianity > History.
Predictive astrology > History.
Books > Europe, German-speaking > History > 1450-1600.
Prophétie > Christianisme > Histoire.
Astrologie prédictive > Histoire.
Livres > Germanophonie > Histoire > 1450-1600.
HISTORY > General.
RELIGION > Philosophy.
Books
Predictive astrology
Prophecy > Christianity
German-speaking Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: printing and prophecy
  • The Sibyl's book
  • Prophets in print
  • Prophets and their readers
  • Visions of visions: functions of the image in printed prophecy
  • Practica teütsch
  • Fear, floods, and the paradox of the practica teütsch
  • Conclusion: the prophetic reader.

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