HIST 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: History Of The Jews In The Netherlands, Basic Writing, Baruch Spinoza
2 Mar 2017
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Print as another mode of sharing knowledge: chapbooks. Low quality, light books made to be read on the go and passed down. Collections of stories from other places in europe. Majority of people are still able to eventually hear about news: censorship. Ruler of local area has to approve everything: literacy rates. 60% of men and 40% of women. Even those who cannot read can hear the news. People read stuff out loud for everyone to hear. Resistance to the enlightenment: print allows ideas to spread that lead to revolution, dangerous because ordinary people might actually think they knew what they were talking about. Religion itself is considered natural to humanity: the beginning of critiques of religion during this time period. Radical critiques are dangerous because so much is at stake. The fate of the country is at stake. Enlightenment builds off of work on the reformation: biblical criticism.
