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Almost three decades have passed since the publication of Elizabeth Eisenstein’s seminal workThe printing press as an agent of change: communications and cultural transformations in early modern Europe. Her suggestion that printing technology promoted dissemination, standardization, and preservation...

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Published inTibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change p. 1
Main Authors Hildegard Diemberger, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Peter Kornicki
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published BRILL 09.06.2016
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied sciences
Arts
Asian studies
Behavioral sciences
British literature
British studies
Buddhism
Business
Chinese culture
East Asian studies
Ethnography
Ethnology
European studies
Industrial sectors
Industry
Literary criticism
Literary history
Literary studies
Literature
Manufacturing industries
Printing
Printing blocks
Printing equipment
Printing industry
Religion
Sinology
Sixteenth century literature
Spiritual belief systems
Technological change
Technological innovation
Technology
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Summary:Almost three decades have passed since the publication of Elizabeth Eisenstein’s seminal workThe printing press as an agent of change: communications and cultural transformations in early modern Europe. Her suggestion that printing technology promoted dissemination, standardization, and preservation of texts impacting the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution has elicited intense debate up to the present day.Different perspectives, new research and cross-cultural insights have since complicated the picture, but some of the questions she raised proved to be extremely fertile in opening new terrains of investigation. Printing started to be a means of dissemination of texts in