HIS243H1 Lecture Notes - Scriptorium, Aldus Manutius, Incunable
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Printing culture revolution: invention of printing, books and their audiences, printers and print. Printing is a cultural and technological revolution; before printing manuscripts. Middle of the 15th c. johannes gutenberg cs. Only way to reproduce a book was to copy it by hand this is what monasteries did. Very capital intense and main activity of monks until medieval ages room + scriptorium. Somewhat of a loan system if a copy existed in another monastary, they requested it by letters. Florence 1450s man comes up with a system of reciting a book and a group of people copied it out same in universities because students copied textbooks. Books and audience books had to look like manuscripts to appeal to the rich. First works were religious texts (bibles, prayer books church had money) Also students (needed the books and had the money) books were market driven, but there was a resistance.
