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PRINT CULTURE

 







WHY THE CHINESE PRINTED BOOKS IN ANCIENT TIMES





WAS PAPER USED BY EUROPEANS AT THAT TIME ?


WHAT WERE THE DIFFICULTIES IN MAKING BOOKS IN EUROPE WHEN IT WAS MADE UP OF VELLUM ?















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HOW THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR SCRIBES CHANGED IN EUROPE OVER  A PERIOD OF TIME ?

EVEN THOUGH PRINT TECHNOLOGY CAME TO EUROPE THE  ARTISTS STILL HAD A ROLE IN THE PRINTED BOOKS . 


HOW PRINT TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMED LIVES ?

A new reading public emerged. 

Books began to be made faster 

More books made 

Books  were cheaper now books became accessible to common man earlier it was accessible to the elites . 


READING AND HEARING PUBLIC WITH RESPECT TO BOOKS ?

 HOW PUBLISHERS PERSUADED THE LESS EDUCATED AND UNEDUCATED TO BUY BOOKS ?




ERASMUS ON PRINT :(PG. 113)

Erasmus was a Latin secular and a Catholic reformer. Like Martin Luther he criticised the excesses of Catholicism but unlike him, he was not grateful to print.

He expressed deep anxiety about printing. For him books were stupid, ignorant slanderous, scandalous irreligious and seditious.

He thought that books were not good for the sanctity of scholastic knowledge. He was of the opinion that printed books would glut the market with contents which will do more harm than good to society. Because of this the value of good content would be lost in the din.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PRINT ?



What could be the reason for various denominations of churches opening their own schools in villages . 

READING MANIA AND THE NEW FORMS OF PUBLICATION 



























BRANDING AND IMAGE CREATION 






BANNED BY CATHOLIC CHURCH (satire)





HOW PRINT CULTURE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR FRENCH REVOLUTION ?(PAGE 115)

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