It takes the average reader 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Renaissance Responses to Technological Change by Sheila J. Nayar
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This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how...
Renaissance Responses to Technological Change by Sheila J. Nayar is 366 pages long, and a total of 93,696 words.
This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 115% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 32 minutes to read Renaissance Responses to Technological Change aloud.
Renaissance Responses to Technological Change is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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