Western Civilization I / Unit 13 WC1 1212 short lesson, about 20 seconds
How Print Spread and What It Changed
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The idea
Presses reached every major western and southern city within twenty years and replaced the scribal trade by fifteen hundred. More books appeared in fifty years than had been copied since Rome, the anchor says: religious first, then literature and politics.
In practice
Broadsides read aloud in taverns for the illiterate.
Where people slip
Scribes kept documents and luxury work. Print took the rest.
Your place on the trail
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