Renaissance Responses to Technological Change

• Main Author: Nayar, Sheila J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; Technology-History.; Literature-History and criticism.; Literature, Modern.; Books-History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of Technology.; Literary History.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; History of the Book.

This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century-the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass-placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist...