How print guided our understanding of earth
Fig 1. Diagram of the solar system in Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestis (Nuremberg, 1543), fol. 9v. © The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Print and the scientific …
Course: The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period: 1450 to 1800
Between manuscript and print
A good starting point to this course is to look at how manuscript and print co-existed in the early decades of the invention of the printing press. All too often …
Gutenberg’s Bible: Europe’s first edition
The mid fifteenth century was a time of innovation in the late medieval book trade, and as we explored in the video, Johannes Gutenberg was one of the great innovators …
The Relationship Between the Enlightenment and Print
There are as many definitions of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment as there are historians, so it would be foolhardy to imply that a movement as diverse and disputatious as this could …
Thanks and goodbye
Well done for completing this course on the History of the Book in the Early Modern Period. Thank you for taking part and we hope you have enjoyed it. If …
Reforming the state
We have explored in this video how the newspapers like Les Révolutions de Paris represented politics in the early modern period by describing the extraordinary events that took place in …
Print and the medical marketplace
In our last step we looked at some of the truly ground-breaking scientific and medical texts of the early modern period and today we are going to focus on how …
Transforming medicine and science
Just as books were essential to the success of the European religious reformation, the printing revolution also transformed medicine and science in early modern Europe. In the video, Elizabethanne talks …
Reforming religion
Welcome back to the final week of this course. This week, we are going to explore how books changed the world including the: Reformation in the early 16th century. Transformation …
History of the Book: Understanding Religious Texts
In this article, we will be looking at how books changed the world. That may seem like a very big claim – and it is. But there is no doubt …
Survival of manuscript
The obituary of the book has often been written. Since the early 2000s, at least, its demise has been confidently foretold and its replacement by e-readers and digital texts prophesied. …
Next week: How books changed the world
We hope you have enjoyed the third week of our course, and thanks for all of your comments and insight. Next week, we will be exploring how books changed the …
Literacy and handwriting
The rise of print culture in the early modern period was both a cause of, and the result of, an increasingly literate population. While compulsory, universal schooling was still a …
The Fagel Botanical Collection: Text and image
In our previous step we looked at the famous Fagel Collection in Trinity College Dublin. As the working library of an affluent urban family living in The Hague, the Fagel …
Reading for singing
Early modern Europe had a vibrant folksong and ballad tradition. Printed songs proved a valuable source of revenue for early modern printers and song played an important role in spreading …
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The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period: 1450 to 1800