CS100 Lecture 6: Week 6
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8th century ad in china (block printing) 15th century ad in europe (printing press) Monks jobs are to copy one book into other book they are writing. Employed at a scriptorium, a place where monks copy writing from someone else"s book into another book. Books as an internal entity, without guidance to provenance. Known via a half oral half literate culture that has no precise counterpart today". Painting of them showed praying, laying down. Turns into lie renaissance people, background images shows their knowledge, o[pen book, musical instruments, globe incunabula. Few illustrations, usually printed 200 to 1000 copies of same book. We may say, then, that the intellectual condition of europe in the mid 15th century made the printing press necessary (25) Prior to printing, all human communication occured in a social context. Even such reading as was done used as its model the oral mode, the reader speacking the words aloud while others flowed along.
