Day 2

Notes:

-Growing middle class, students in expanding universities, increased literacy, monopoly on literacy is bein takin away from the church,

-Incunabula = baby carriage

-Refers to the first 50 years of printing

-What was the first book printed? Gutenberg Bible

-Printing was centered in Germany

-By 1500, 35 editions of 9 million books

-Typography is the major communication advance between the invention of writing and 20^th century printing.

-Exemplar – example page

Personal Thoughts:

-todays movie was very boring and alittle hard to follow along with.

- type back then had to be hand carved which must have been alot of work and glad thats not how it is today because it would really suck.

-Gutenberg was just a normal guy but he was famous