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Article: Dissemination of Knowledge
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE
DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE.
Between 1450 and 1800 the focus of European intellectual life shifted away from the traditional university centers to become diffused across a much greater geographical and social spectrum. The advent of printing radically changed the exchange of knowledge and ideas in Europe and facilitated an additional move away from the communication of knowledge at local levels
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universities, courts, early humanist academies
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to international communication among the self-proclaimed "republic of letters." Oral and manuscript communication nonetheless remained vibrant through the end of the eighteenth century at both institutional ...