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Print The European World Dr Rosa Salzberg Print
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1620 Francis Bacon: press (and gunpowder and the compass) “changed the whole face and state of things in the world” Gutenberg: most influential person of the millennium? Printing press as a crucial “agent of change” (Eisenstein)
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Precursors urbanisation rise in literacy prosperity and leisure rise in paper production
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Vellum
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Manuscript edition of the Letters of St. Jerome (Italy, mid C15th)
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Precedents Woodblock printing in China by C7th Experimenting with metal types by C11th C14th woodcut blockbooks and images The Diamond Sutra (China, 868AD)
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A woodcut blockbook, 1418
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The Madonna del fuoco (woodcut print, Italy, C15th)
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Invention Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400- 68), goldsmith from Mainz experimenting in Strasbourg by 1440s
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Rhineland A medieval wine press
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Albrecht Durer, An early printing press
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Invention Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400-68), goldsmith from Mainz experimenting in Strasbourg by 1440s investment from Johannes Fust court case 1455
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The 42-line Bible (Mainz, 1450s)
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A papal indulgence, 1507
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Venice, as depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)
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Music printing
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Edition of Dioscorides in Greek (Venice, 1499)
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Cheap Print
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A Book of Arms and Love called Leandra... (Venice, 1520s)
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Impact ‘The Unacknowledged Revolution’ (Eisenstein) preservation, dissemination, standardisation essential for Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Reformation Galileo Galilei, Dialogue of the Two World Systems (Florence, 1632)
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Hans Baldung, Portrait of Martin Luther (1521)
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Albrecht Durer, Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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Agnolo Bronzino, Portrait of a young man (1530s)
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Agnolo Bronzino, Portrait of a girl with a book (1545)
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from Andrea Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica (Basel, 1555)
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Sphera Mundi (Venice, 1485)
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Map of London, 1572
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1468 Cardinal Giovanni Andrea Bussi to Pope Paul II, “In our time, God gave Christendom a gift which enables even the pauper in acquire books” Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, A seller of religious prints (C17th)
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Control 1515 Papal bull Inter sollicitudines calls for pre-publication censorship reaction to Protestantism Indices of Prohibited Books propaganda
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Continuities similarities in appearance and content continued use of manuscript importance of orality Robert Darnton: “for most people throughout most of history, books had audiences rather than readers. They were better heard than seen.” Printed and hand-illuminated Italian Bible (Venice, 1490)
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, The Librarian, 1566
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