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Article: Printing and Publishing
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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PRINTING AND PUBLISHING
PRINTING AND PUBLISHING.
The shift from script to print in early modern communications was both dramatic and gradual. The invention of printing from movable type did produce many more books and led to a steep decline in the production of manuscripts by about 1475. Still, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, three or four hundred years after the introduction of movable type, manuscript was a legitimate form of publication in every field of scientific and literary endeavor. And while official communications from the political and religious spheres more and more began to take printed form, a lively network of clandestine manuscript production allowed ...
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