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Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Fernando Bouza is a Professor in the Department of Early Modern History at the Complutensian University in Madrid. He is author of a number of books, including Imagen y propaganda: capitulos de historia cultural del reinado de Felipe II, and Del escribano a la biblioteca. Roger Chartier is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Professor in the College de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext "An ambitious exposition of the topic of memory and the transmission of knowledge in early modern Spain."-- Zusammenfassung Examines how speech, visual images, and written texts all interact as manifestations of the human desire to know and remember. This book seeks to address the reductive opposition both between written and oral texts and between script and print in the Early Modern period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword, by Roger Chartier 1. Hearing, Seeing, Reading, and Writing: The Forms and Uses of Words, Images, and Writing 2. The Persuasion of the Word: A Voice; The Wonder of Images: A Portrait; The Power of Writing: A Talisman 3. Natural History of the Written Text: Authors, Scribes, Printers, Booksellers, and Readers 4. Classrooms, Libraries, and Archives as the Culmination of Human Memory Notes Bibliography Index of Names Acknowledgments

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Authors Fernando Bouza, Fernando J. Bouza Alvarez
Assisted by Michael Agnew (Translation), Sonia Lopez (Translation)
Publisher University of pennsylvania pr
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 14.06.2004
 
EAN 9780812238051
ISBN 978-0-8122-3805-1
No. of pages 277
Series Material Texts
Material Texts
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics
Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries

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