CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Johannes Gutenberg, Woodblock Printing, Middle Ages
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Cs 100: print culture; relecions on media and power. The middle ages (5th-15th centuries) characterisics include: expansion in the populaion growth, intellectual culture was being revived, power shits within england. Most people couldn"t read or write causing the people including royalty to rely on monasteries that were literate. Texts that were agreeable were copied by the monks creaing books. Gunpowder, cannons, spectacles, a method for recording ime, new shipping and trade routes. The more educaion, the less people relied on the church. Paper originated in ce china, using things like tree bark, cloth etc. paper eventually made its way to popularity in the 12th century. Block prining 6th-9th century china (thomas carter reading) 15th century europe, a german metallurgist named johannes gutenberg creates movable type out of metal molds. Mass producion, made knowledge widely available, allowed for the underclass to rise in power (more jobs available)
