1. Great Chain of Being
Take your sheet and try to organize yourself into a hierarchy based on your title.

3. Pre-modern society society without media!
Overwhelming majority of population lived in peasant communities.
Subsistence agriculture took place outside money-commodity economy.
Little travel or communications for mass of population.
Both warrior elites and peasant masses were illiterate.
Small priestly caste monopolise literacy and knowledge of sacred books.
Social hierarchy of feudalism was founded upon patriarchal extended family.
Caesaropapism justified by divine law: Great Chain of Being
Pre-modern society
society without media!

4. Early printers licensed by the monarchy and/or church.
Challenge of liberalism to state controls over printing.
Civil society was contract in mutual interest between individual property- owners.
Civil society created by trade and commerce between bourgeois individuals operating under natural laws of the marketplace.
Free press provided information for free trade in goods and services: essential knowledge about domestic and foreign markets.
Advent of Modernity
invasion of countryside by money-commodity economy of towns.
Money as surplus -> money as necessity.
Greater travel and communications for more and more people.
1440 Johannes Gutenberg: printing press with moveable type. VRnM
Book publishing as money-commodity economy: book market for knowledge about religion -> trade -> politics -> free speech in all subjects.
Feudalism saw politics as private affair of kings and bishops.

5. Civil liberties of Free-Born Englishmen.
Coffee houses, pubs, freemason lodges, theatres, pleasure gardens, brothels: men of all ranks meeting as equals.
1642 English Revolution: collapse of state censorship of printing -> propaganda war between Parliamentarians and Monarchists -> toleration of religious and political dissent.
Civil liberties of Free-Born Englishmen.