COM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Privilege Of Peerage, Printing, Prior Restraint

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 250
• Professor: Terilli Samuel

Document Summary

Nicolas copernicus (1473-1543: de revolutionibus orbium coelestium, 1543. Galileo galilei (1564-1642: the refracting telescope; experimental scientific method, advances in medicine: Leonardo da vinci (1452-1519: human anatomy, other advances: Around the thirteenth century, the state-church partnership began to crack. Monarchies grew stronger internally, while church corruption intensified. The printing press and movable type (1450) The reformation (1517), followed by the counter reformation (1545: licensing the press, as gutenberg"s invention gained acceptance and grew in popularity, controlling printing became the focus of state interest. In 1543, the catholic church banned all books except those that had its approval. In1559 it issued its first index of forbidden books. English: declared himself the head of the anglican church; thereafter any criticism of the church was seditious as well as heretical, all treason and sedition cases to be tried in the star chamber where there were no juries. The judges were the king"s loyal appointees: during the sixteenth century, england prosecuted authors and publishers of.