1. The Printing Revolution in the Renaissance

2. Outline Books in the Middle Ages Paper Making Block Printing
Moveable Type and Johann Gutenberg
The Impact of the Printing Press

3. Books in the Middle Ages
Books written by hand by monks in monasteries
Often very valuable
Kept in monasteries, sometimes chained to shelves
What are the problems with this?

4. Books in the Middle Ages
A Medieval ‘Book of Hours’

5. Image from the Golf Book, British Library

6. Paper Making Invented by Chinese c. AD 105
Previously used parchment (sheep or goat skin, rubbed smooth with pumice stone)
Muslim world made use of paper and bequeathed it to Europe c. 12th Century AD

7. Block Printing
The Diamond Sutra, British Library, AD 868

8. The Invention of Movable Type

9. Working with a printing press

10. Movable Type

11. The beginning of the Gutenberg Bible, volume 1, Old Testament, Epistle of St. Jerome.

12. The Impact of the Printing Press
Most important early printer was Aldus Manutius, owner of the Aldine Press in Florence
Produced many works from Greece and Rome
Development of new type faces
Gradually more books in languages other than ancient Greek and Latin
Allowed the writings of men such as Dante, Boccaccio, Macchiavelli, Erasmus to reach a much wider audience

13. Page from a 16th Century book showing a Pomegranate Tree

14. Anatomy of a Horse

15. The Five Orders of Architecture (Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-1573)