Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23500314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul M Dover |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781316556177 |
| ISBN | 9781316556177 |
| Open Library | OL35862135M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 274 |
This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These developments had a profound and transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical significance of this 'information revolution' for the present day, and suggests thought-provoking parallels with the informational challenges of the digital age.
Europe · History · Information organization · Information resources management · Information science · Information society · Information Technology · Intellectual life · Papermaking · Printing · Social aspects · sociological aspects · Sociology · Technology · Written communication
Writing, Indexing
The Great and Miserable Flight’
Ruling by information, governing by records
Towards a history of the questionnaire
Jem Sultan and Venice’s intelligence system
The composite world of early modern information
Information and the government of the composite polities of the Renaissance world ( c . 1350–1650)
The ambassador and the press
Navigating Uncertainty from the Spanish Empire's Southern Frontier
The Great Divergence
The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe
Forgetting Machines
Communication and Conflict
Clock and the Mirror
Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature
Samuel Pepys and His Books
Latin Palaeography
Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World
Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome
Power of Knowledge
Making Archives in Early Modern Europe
Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth
Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages
Material Letter in Early Modern England
The Information Nexus
The First Modern Economy
The Industrious Revolution
Information and Communication in Venice
Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
Tudor Revolution in Government
Impolite Learning
Experiencing Nature
The Science of Describing
The Scientific Revolution
Oeuvres de Descartes
Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine
Document Raj
The Nature of the Book
Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England
Casualties of Credit
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
The Implications of Literacy
Paper Machines
Man-Computer Symbiosis
Information Technology and Economic Change
Data before the Fact
Brief
The Book of Memory
A Week in the Life of John Calvin
Huldrych Zwingli‘s Private Library
Johann Jakob Moser et l’organisation érudite du savoir à l’époque moderne
Conrad Gessner and the Mobility of the Book
Conseils et conseillers dans l’Europe de la Renaissance
Printing, Piety, and the People in Italy
The Nuremberg Familienbücher
The `Liberey' of Duke Ernst of Bavaria (1500-1560)
Chapter Two. A Provincial News Community In Sixteenth-Century Europe
Pamphlets, Printing, and Political Culture in the Early Dutch Republic
Au service du Roi Catholique
The Cambridge History of Science
Birth of the Leviathan
The Whispers of Cities
Cultural Memory and Early Civilization
The Carolingians and the Written Word
Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions
At the origin of the industrial district
The Indulgence as a Media Event
The Making of Polities
Historia
Hamlet's Tables and the Technologies of Writing in Renaissance England
Documents and Bureaucracy
The Emperor and His Chancellor
Note Taking as an Art of Transmission
News in early modern Europe
The invention of the newspaper
Society and Economy in Germany, 1300–1600
The Royal Society’s role in the diffusion of information in the seventeenth century
L’usage jésuite de la correspondance
Commonplace Learning
The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward
The Myth of Print Culture
Peiresc's Mediterranean World
Sociable Knowledge
Matters of Exchange
Against the Grain
French Diplomacy and the Wars of Religion
A Scribal Publisher of Political Information
Manuscripts in Motion
Manuscript Writings on Politics and Current Affairs in the Collection of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535–1601)
"Saper la mente della soa Beatitudine"
Libraries, memory and the space of knowledge
The Rise of Note‐Taking in Early Modern Europe
How to manage an information state
Archives as networks
Records out and archives in
Confession, confusion, and rule in a box? Archival accumulation in northwestern Germany in the age of confessionalization
Deciphering the diplomatic archives of fifteenth-century Italy
Ordering the archive in early modern Venice (1400–1650)
Confession-Building, Long-Distance Networks, and the Organization of Jesuit Science
Worlds of Paper
Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Pandechion Epistemonicon and the Use of Paper Technology in Renaissance Natural History
Nero and the Last Stalk of Silphion
Locke, Bacon and Natural History
Authorship and Teamwork Around the Cimento Academy
Sharing Cases
Natural history and information overload
Erasmus and the republic of letters
Italian renaissance diplomacy
For a Comparative History of Early Modern Diplomacy
| Citations per year | 2.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |