| Description |
viii, 166 pages ; 20 cm |
| Note |
Translated from the Norwegian. |
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"First published in Norwegian as Tegn til Sivilisasjon by Spartacus in 2019" -- Title page verso. |
| Contents |
Part I: 1494: It was finished -- Part II: Civilising marks -- Part III: A philosophy for a world in motion. |
| Summary |
"With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act only performed by priests and aristocrats into an individual, even private, activity. This change helped spark the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution--in which punctuation played a crucial role. As long as texts were read out loud only by an educated elite there was no need for punctuation to mark pauses, full stops or questions. So punctuation--the full stop, the comma, the exclamation mark, the question mar and the semicolon--helped shape modern-day Europe as we know it." -- Page [4] of cover. |
| Subject |
Punctuation -- History.
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Europe -- Civilization.
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| Added Author |
Walter, Christine Rae, translator.
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| Added Title |
Tegn til Sivilisasjon. English.
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Signs of ?;! civi-lisa-tion* : * how punctuation changed history |
| ISBN |
9781529326710 (pbk.) |
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1529326710 (pbk.) |
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