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Cultures of Communication Helmut Puff

Cultures of Communication By Helmut Puff

Cultures of Communication by Helmut Puff


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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.

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Cultures of Communication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond by Helmut Puff

Contrary to the historiographical commonplace no Reformation without print Cultures of Communication examines media in the early modern world through the lens of the periods 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.

Cultures of Communication Reviews

"What sets this collection apart from others like it is the sheer variety of the essays "

-- David Jonathan Davis * Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 2 *

About Helmut Puff

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.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction: Cultures of Communication, Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
    Christopher Wild and Ulrike Strasser
  2. The Absolute Medium: Nicholas of Cusa on the Mediality of Christ
    Christian Kiening
  3. Fragmentation and Presence: Reformation Debates and Cultural Theory
    Lee Palmer Wandel
  4. Here I Stand: Face-to-Face Communication and Print Media in the Early Reformation
    Marcus Sandl
  5. Mediated Immediacies in Thomas Muntzers Theology
    Helmut Puff
  6. Sing unto the Lord: An Anthropology of Singing and Not-Singing in the Late Reformation Era
    Susan C. Karant-Nunn
  7. Reading Images, Printing Voices: Simulation of Media and Epistemic Reflection in German Baroque Literature
    Daniel Weidner
  8. Divine Messengers and Divine Messages: Angelic Media in Early Modern Hispanic America
    Andrew Redden
  9. On Reading Missionary Correspondence: Jesuit Theologians on the Spiritual Benefits of a New Genre
    Markus Friedrich
  10. Early Modern Translation Theories as Mission Theories: A Case Study of Jose de Acosta: De procuranda indorum salute (1588)
    Renate Durr
  11. Apocalyptic Times in a World without End: The Straits of Magellan around 1600
    Susanna Burghartz

Additional information

NGR9781442630376
9781442630376
144263037X
Cultures of Communication: Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond by Helmut Puff
New
Hardback
University of Toronto Press
2017-04-03
280
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