The print revolution context’s summary

We all use printer nowadays, it’s not even a big deal for us. We use it for printing hard copies of academic papers, tests or even pictures. However, printing didn’t exist from the very beginning and was actually developed by time. This chapter talks about the revolution of printing in the early modern period. In china had japan printing had been practiced from the eighth century where the method used was block wood printing. Later on the practice of printing spread in Europe via diaspora of German printers. However, in Russia and the orthodox Christian world more generally, print was slow to penetrate till the beginning of the eighteenth century. In the other hand, in the Muslim world resistance to print stayed strong through the early modern period. It was considered a sin to practice printing and even issued a decree punishment by the death penalty in Turkey. Printing then became a way to spread knowledge where people could their own rights and liberties through newspapers. However, many commentators wished the new epoch never arrived. In the seventeenth century anxiety increased concerning the effects of printing. The problem was about reviled information. But in the early middle aged the problem became lack of books and later became the superfluity. In the sixteenth and seventeenth century awareness about physicals communication problems increased. Thus, postal system expanded rapidly in the early modern world. The empire and communication was that of physicals communication between countries. It was followed by the transatlantic communications where the improvements of communication shrank the Atlantic in the eighteenth century. Despites the huge literature on the importance of oral communication, it didn’t receive the attention it deserved. However, it was often exaggerated that the invention of printing didn’t alter the fundamentally oral nature of European culture. In relation, writing communication was a a very important context that was taught separated of reading. Also, linguistic communication can’t be neglected in which the rise of a print society was associated with the rise of the vernacular languages. As for visual communication, the language of gestures was taken seriously and even taught in schools. It had a profound change when the printing rose where images became widely available. However the most effective kind of communications is the one that requires audio-visual contexts. The related events were examples of interaction between different means of communication. Finally another related aspect is censorship. It was a major preoccupation of the authorities in European states and churches, protestant and catholic alike, in the early middle age.