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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …