CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Scriptorium, Woodblock Printing, I Want To Break Free
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Carter: chinese block printing: standard inexpensive paper. 8th century ad in china (block printing) 15th century ad in europe (printing press) No proof of connection that gutenburg was influenced by chinese printing press. Eu pre-print: scriptorium: scriptorium was almost always located in a monastery where monks were employed at various tasks, one of their jobs would be to copy books. Disconnect between three roles: author, written the words, scribe, copy the words, artist, makes the illustrations related to the text. At a monastery you are only allowed to look at the book you were working on. Einstein: age of scriptorium: scribal culture, books as an internal entity, without guidance to provenance. Not (cid:374)e(cid:272)essaril(cid:455) listi(cid:374)g the author(cid:859)s (cid:374)a(cid:373)e: knowledge as a prerequisite. People were not allowed in libraries and needed special permission to access them: k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:448)ia a (cid:858)half oral half literate (cid:272)ulture that has (cid:374)o pre(cid:272)ise (cid:272)ou(cid:374)terpart toda(cid:455)(cid:859)
