Cultures of Communication from Reformation to Enlightenment: Constructing Publics in the Early Modern German Lands (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History) - Hardcover

 
9780754605485: Cultures of Communication from Reformation to Enlightenment: Constructing Publics in the Early Modern German Lands (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754605485 ISBN 13: 9780754605485
Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Focusing on the territories of the Holy Roman Empire from the early Reformation to the mid-eighteenth century, this volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays examines some of the structures, practices and media of communication that helped shape the social, cultural, and political history of the period. Not surprisingly, print was an important focal point, but it was only one medium through which individuals and institutions constructed publics and communicated with an audience. Religious iconography and ritual, sermons, music, civic architecture, court ceremony, street gossip, acts of violence, are also forms of communication explored in the volume. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and scholarly backgrounds, this volume transcends narrow specializations and will be of interest to a broad range of academics seeking to understand the social, political and cultural consequences of the "information revolution" of Reformation Europe.

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James Van Horn Melton

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754605485
ISBN 13 
9780754605485
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
312
Editor
Melton James Van Horn