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Agent Of Absolutism: Printing And Politics In Early Modern Europe, Donna Amelia Vinson
Agent Of Absolutism: Printing And Politics In Early Modern Europe, Donna Amelia Vinson
Bridgewater Review
The fifteenth century marked the commencement of two trends which signaled the end of the medieval era and the dawn of modernity: the emergence of centralized monarchies and the introduction of print culture. Both trends were gradual and in their infancy in the fifteenth century, but their successive paths of development were closely intertwined. Throughout the early modern era, monarchs with aspirations of imposing an absolute and uncontested authority on their often recalcitrant subjects utilized the “new art” (ars nova) of printing to realize their aims. Select printers became agents of absolutism, and the craft developed at the …
Ursae Majoris: Putting The Pieces Together [Yearbook] 1993, Bridgewater State College
Ursae Majoris: Putting The Pieces Together [Yearbook] 1993, Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater State Yearbooks
Annual yearbook published by the students of the Bridgewater State College. The 1993 yearbook is dedicated to Father Bob and Sister Joanne (of the Catholic Center and Campus Ministries).