MDSA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: William Holmes Mcguffey, Paperback, Mcguffey Readers
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Chapter 10: books and the power of print. The history of books, form papyrus to paperbacks. Before books or any writing, oral cultures passed on information and values through the wisdom and memories of a community"s elders or tribal storytellers. First alphabets that were initially experiment by babylonians and egyptians marked the development stage for books. Initially, pictorial symbols and letters were drawn on wood strips or pressed with a stylus into clay tablets and tied/stacked together to form the first. Egyptians rolled writings into scroll and the greeks and then the romans adopted. Papyrus=word from which the paper is derived (cid:498)books(cid:499) Parchment treated animal skin- replaced papyrus in europe didn"t have to be imported from egypt the method. It was stronger, smoother, more durable, and less expensive because it. During middle ages, christian clergy strongly influence what is know as. Period in which books were painstakingly lettered, decorated, and bound by hand.
