IDH 2931 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Printing
18 Nov 2017
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Intellectual property: standardization of knowledge, education, communication, propagation of ideas, esp. religious and political, censorship. Printing and the french revolution: societe typographique de neuchatel (stn), 1769-1794, censorship, printed trial briefs-bridged an important gap between the high enlightenment"s literacy achievement and the revolution"s political concerns, revolutionary pamphlets. French absolutism: absolutism: political theory that absolute power should be vested in one of more rulers, absolutism peaked in france in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the case of the french, this absolute power resided in the monarch. Louis xiv c. 1701: elaborate dress, rich colors ie the royal red, the blueish/purple which is the color for royalty, the golden underlays, the staff, the sword both symbolize his power.
