importance of the invention of the printing press

Question 1

scholarship & science

Answer 1

know scholars could publish multiple copies of their work and pass it around, fueling each others’ work

Question 2

oral tradition

Answer 2

now storeis in print; people read thier stories

-growing literacy-reading is a silence, individual act

Question 3

languages

Answer 3

fostered a standardizing of language, syntax, vocabulary, grammar
-local variations get replaced by national version of languge

Question 4

authorship

Answer 4

became more important

• role gained recognition… before the author’s name was completely lost
• what the author established is now repeating from the source

Question 5

commericialization

Answer 5

works became profitable

• authors became popular
• copyright laws created

Question 6

pagination

Answer 6

numbering of pages

• became practical and useful to have now
• led to indexes and table of contents

Question 7

process of secularization

Answer 7

• most books were put out by churches before; church lost its power in shaping civilization and values
• exception - the classics… after printing press classics were published in vernacular of native languages

Question 8

dime novel

Answer 8

novels are a dime

• printing on popular subjects
• books affordable to the masses