TF4078 -- Technology and Education in Western Culture -- Syllabus
Materials mentioned in class
March 9, 1995
- Eisenstein, 1979
- Elizabeth Eisenstein. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change 2
vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Eisenstein, 1983
- Elizabeth Eisenstein. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern
Europe Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Materials mentioned in class
February 2, 1995
- Hugo, 1831
- Victor Hugo. "This Will Kill That," The Hunchback of
Notre-Dame, Book V, Chapter 2. In the course of his great novel,
Hugo invoked the cultural significance of architecture prior to the era
of print in a way that helped reawaken the appreciation for gothic
cathedrals.
- Weber, 1976
- Eugen Weber. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of
Rural France, 1870-1914. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1976. Weber presents a complex picture of the factors that made local
peasant cultures very resistant to transformation into a national
culture.
- Yates, 1966
- Frances A. Yates. The Art of Memory. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 1966. This work begins to recover the
strategies people used to manage their stock of learning in the
information environment prior to print.