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This quantity makes a speciality of the function of the pc and digital expertise within the self-discipline of historical past. It comprises consultant articles addressing H-Net, scholarly booklet, online reviewing, more suitable lectures utilizing the area huge net, and old study.
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Then there is the revolution in communication brought about by the printing press. Elizabeth Eisenstein presents the introduction of print as a major, although often overlooked, revolution of the period in The Printing Press as an Agent of Social Change. 1 In other words, without the press many facets of these movements that we accept as commonplace today, such as choices among forms of Christianity and a general acquaintance with classical authors, would simply be topics of study for that particular era.
He would have had the same degrees from which to choose, and he would have followed much the same curriculum for those degree choices. He would have followed the same primary means of communication—the lecture, repetition, disputation, and oral exams. Finally, instructors and students alike would have spoken the same language for instruction as did those in the previous century—Latin. 6 Critics who respond, however, that the humanists of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries made great inroads in the fields of grammar and rhetoric are correct.
Staley 2. Will the Real Revolution Please Stand Up! Gutenberg, the Computer, and the University M. Daniel Price Part II: Scholarly Communication and Publication in the Electronic Age 3. Participatory Historical Writing on the Net: Notes and Observations from Recent Experience Timothy Messer-Kruse 4. Scholarly Publication in the Electronic Age Ellen Meserow Sauer 5. On-Line Reviewing Pitfalls, Pinnacles, Potentialities, and the Present Scott A. Merriman Part III: Multimedia Approaches to Teaching 6.