CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Areopagitica, The Canadian Press, Counter-Reformation
6 Apr 2016
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The middle ages: feudal society and the dominance of the church. The renaissance: return to the classical teachings of ancient greece and rome, the emergence of humanism, marked by the development of gutenberg"s prining press (1454) Prining press disseminated ideas and spread literacy: new ideas from other regions could lead to social change and destabilizaion. The reformaion: marin luther criicized the catholic church and advocated a more individual relaionship with god; prining and translaion of the bible: prining of the bible made it more accessible to people, weakening the power of the church. Counter reformaion: re-establishment of church and state as heads of power, censorship and state control of prining and publishing: john milton"s ani-censorship essay areopagiica (1644) Nature of the prining press: the desire to control informaion vs the the development of voices represening diferent interests. Industrial revoluion lead to the development of ciies and the need for improved communicaion across distances.
