print revolution
Movable type upheaval
The print revolution refers to the transformation of communication and knowledge that followed the development of movable type printing in 15th-century Europe, particularly Gutenberg's press.
Books became cheaper and more widely available, spreading literacy, enabling the Reformation, and accelerating scientific exchange.
The term sometimes applies to later printing innovations or, by analogy, to digital publishing's disruption of print media.
- GutenbergPrinting press inventor's name
- literacyAbility to read, write
- reading publicCollective audience for publications
- book tradeCommerce in printed volumes
- book cultureSocial practices around reading
movable type · Renaissance · libraries · humanism · Protestant Reformation · freedom of the press · pamphlets · Martin Luther · lithography · rotary press · scientific method · learned societies · Enlightenment · public education · newspapers · public sphere · paper manufacturing · mass communication
- print mediaheadline, magazine, articles, news, byline
- printmakingwoodcuts, woodcut, lithography, etchings, etching
- RenaissanceLeonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Mona Lisa
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