CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Individualism, Scriptorium, Ancient Greek
21 Nov 2017
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Block printing: carved blocks with each figure that can be arranged in a grid and pressed into a text for duplication. *books have a direct lineage to gutenberg"s printing press developed in europe and germany. Located in a monastery with monks and nuns, whom possess various jobs such as copying books (these monks would need to speak fluent in many languages such as latin, ancient greek, ancient aramaic. Roles: (for a book) author, scribe and artist. Manuscripts include elaborate drawings and stylized letters. Books as an internal entity, without guidance to provenance. Knowledge as a prerequisite, no public libraries, must know what you want to read and where in a book that was located. Known via a half oral/literate culture that has no precise counterpart today" - only few could read one person reads aloud to other people. Today we have all information about length, publisher, author etc - this wasn"t important in the scribal cultural.
