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

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

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
Main Author: Green, Jonathan, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
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.
HISTORY > General.
RELIGION > Philosophy.
Books
Predictive astrology
Prophecy > Christianity
German-speaking Europe
History
Online Access:Click for online access
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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