1° ed.: 1983.

List of Illustrations and Maps -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- PART I THE EMERGENCE OF PRINT CULTURE IN THE WEST -- 1. An Unacknowledged Revolution -- 2. Defining the Initial Shift -- 3. Some Features of Print Culture -- 4. The Expanding Republic of Letters -- PART II INTERACTION WITH OTHER DEVELOPMENTS -- 5. The Permanent Renaissance: Mutation of a Classical Revival -- 6. Western Christendom Disrupted: Resetting the Stage for the Reformation -- 7. The Book of Nature Transformed: Printing and the Rise of Modern Science -- 8. Conclusion: Scripture and Nature transformed -- Afterword: Revisiting the Printing Revolution -- Selected Reading -- Index.