The Printing Press Flashcards
How many books were published 1500-29 compared to 1558?
800 to 1800 every decade.
What did the improving and developing education system and literacy mean?
Increased desire for reading and books- books could be shared.
Publications improved in what sense and who could now read them?
Could be printed quicker and cheaper- a broader range of society could own books (excluded lower classes).
What did private houses have due to the printing press?
Written (could all be biblical) ballads, plays and stories.
What are Chapbook’s?
Small cheap books sold by salesmen spread stories, songs quickly.
Explain what happened in 1529-30?
Censorship laws to censor religious material and secular texts e.g. Luther and early P thinkers- after the Break from Rome- The Stationers.
Why were European Presses a threat e.g. Wittenberg 200 presses in 1500. Give an example of defence?
Some imported religious radical/ different texts like Lutheranism into England- threat of religious instability. Lutheran books burned in London, 1521.
How ironic? Ultimately this was a major factor in the Reformation too- the major cultural change as religion was so important in Tudor life as it literally controlled the lives of the people.
What was the threat to Mary’s Catholic measures and policies 1553-58.
Religious instability make worse by P exiles, anti-Catholic propaganda and pro-P John A Knox printing pamphlets etc.
Give an example how Puritans used the printing press for religious radicalism that caused further instability.
Pamphlets- 1576 John Stubbs- ‘The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf’- over planned marriage to French Duke of Anjou.
Give an example of Catholic works using the printing press that aided further religious instability.
Catholic materials from Netherlands and France smuggled to keep Catholic rituals/ ideas alive un private.
Ultimately what did the Printing press do?
Created a platform for religious persuasion and reformation and change. Censorship from royal/noble patronage helped guide the stream of information to guide a particular change in culture and religion. It was a major and vital tool to influence change and culture.
Spread culture like new songs and plays too, artwork. Different ideas of thinking and new inventions more well known etc- educational pamphlets and works.
How did it effect/ help the development of education?
Helped to spread educational texts like plays etc which could help teach people.
The different books being published like Humanist books, the development of Greek and Latin, religious texts (different Bibles- Latin vs English, C v P-religious education- all tied into schools- patronage and influence) all determined what people were taught (generations) and the views and ideas of society (rooted in school/ general education).
Helped spread literacy and reading- further educating- making people less illiterate and giving opportunities to rise in society (rising Middle-Class (Eliz esp.). As they could learn and read to unlock more opportunities- Latin, Greek and go beyond their station through education. -indication of status and education level.
