MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Berthold Von Henneberg, Woodblock Printing, Stained Glass
Document Summary
Printing enabled mass education, began mass communication and publication created a sense of the public . Wherever printing has gone it has been followed by censorship and propaganda. 1486 censorship of the printed work can be traced to archbishop berthold von henneberg in the same. He must"ve known something about block printing. Missionaries and other travelers who returned to europe w/ news of the chinese invention of paper may have reported a greater number of books were printed in china. Before gutenberg"s printing press, most books in europe were written in latin and unavailable to an illiterate public. Info came from preachers or balladeers = if something written needed to be revealed, on person could real aloud to others (usually a local priest, monks) Stained glass church windows carried the only history most ppl knew about. At the time book production existed in europe was copied by hand, line after line.
