The Print Revolution had transformed the lives of people changing their relationship to information and knowledge
Print Culture and Modern World (10)The Print Revolution had transformed the lives of people changing their relationship to information and knowledge. Analyse the statement.
Answer
Transformation due to Print Revolution:
- It influenced people's perception and opened up new ways of looking at things.
- A new reading public emerged
- Increase in the reading public
- Intermingling of hearing and reading public
- Created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas.
- Introduced a new world of debate and discussion.
- Stimulated many distinctive individual interpretation of faith.
With the printing press, a new reading public emerged. Printing reduced the cost of books. The time and labour required to produce each book came down, and multiple copies could be produced with greater ease.
Print created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas, and introduced a new world of debate and discussion. Even those who disagreed with established authorities could now print and circulate their ideas.
Print and popular religious literature stimulated many distinctive individual interpretations of faith even among little-educated working people. In the sixteenth century, Menocchio, a miller in Italy, began to read books that were available in his locality. He reinterpreted the message of the Bible and formulated a view of God and Creation that enraged the Roman Catholic Church.
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