CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Elizabethan Era, Johannes Gutenberg, Woodblock Printing
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Before the printing press: the middle ages (circa 5th-15th centuries, emergent national monarchies, expansion, the church and monopolies of knowledge. The pri(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g press is apart of : a process of dynamic change, not series of disruptions (did the world change utterly in. First (cid:449)e (cid:374)eed : paper first century ce china, block printing 6th-9th century china. Gutenberg: 15th century europe, a german metallurgist named johannes gutenberg creates a movable type out of metal molds. The revolutionary era of print: print started a social, culture, political revolution because: A prototype for mass production (after incunablula) Allowed for the rise of a middle class between aristocrats and peasants. Vernacular languages and the rise of nationalism. Marked decline in the power of catholicism. But, eliza(cid:271)etha(cid:374) era argues : a(cid:448)aila(cid:271)le e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e does (cid:374)ot suggest su(cid:272)h a si(cid:373)ple (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)lusio(cid:374) as (cid:862)the pri(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g press (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g(cid:863)
