Cultures of Communication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 144263037X ISBN 13 : 9781442630376

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2017

Synopsis

Contrary to the historiographical commonplace "no Reformation without print" Cultures of Communication examines media in the early modern world through the lens of the period's religious history. Looking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the early modern cultures of communication. The authors assembled here urge us to understand the Reformation as a response to the perceived crisis of religious communication in late medieval Europe. In addition, they explore the novel demands placed on European media ecology by the acceleration and intensification of global interconnectedness in the early modern period. As the Christian evangelizing impulse began to propel growing numbers of Europeans outward to the Americas and Asia, theories and practices of religious communication had to be reformed to accommodate an array of new communicative constellations - across distances, languages, cultures.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helmut Puff is Professor of German and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Ulrike Strasser is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Christopher Wild is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Associate Faculty in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 144263037X
• ISBN 13: 9781442630376
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Puff Helmut, Strasser Ulrike, Wild Christopher
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