Explore the Printing Revolution and its impact on the Renaissance through books and leaves from the MRU Archives' Early Print Collection. Prepared for HIST 3333 The Renaissance.
Video contents:
00:00 Introduction
00:36 Manuscript culture in the medieval period
01:15 The Printing Revolution
02:08 The printing process
03:55 Societal impacts of printing technology
06:21 Comparing manuscript to print: Liber Sextus Decretalium (ca. 1300) and Decretals of Gregory IX (1486)
09:01 Reproducing images through woodcuts: The Nuremberg Chronicle (1494)
10:17 Early attitudes to print, and hybrid works: Hore Beate Marie Virginis (ca. 1521)
12:18 Vernacular texts: German Bible (1477)
14:27 Dante's Inferno (1507)
17:20 Classical works: Aldine Aristotle (1497)
19:23 The Aeneid (1517)
21:05 How to access collections