HIS243H1 Lecture : Invention of Printing
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invention of printing: "invention, books, audiences, & printers, cultural consquences. "invention" printing begins around 1450 in the city of mainz, the first person to do so being johannes gutenburg (1395 - 1468) This is the first case of a print method involving movable metal type. Before this all manuscripts where produced by hand, one of the jobs of monks in the middle ages, and one of the reasons monastic libraries were the best location to find texts. The way the monastery would get a new manuscript would be to find where a text was (such as another monastic library) and then ask to be loaned it, so that their monks could copy it by hand. Or they may pay to have to done for them. Book sellers at the time will borrow a manuscript and set up some copyists - which could take an extremely long time. This lead to the model of the university classroom.
