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Medieval Book Production : Manufacturing the Printed Book

Manufacturing the Printed Book
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Printing with movable type was perfected in the 1450's in Mainz, Germany by Johann Gutenberg (c. 1398-1468) and his two associates, Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer. This innovation allowed for the mass reproduction of texts and high quality printed books, at a moment of radical change in Western Europe. The printing press which at the beginning may seem to have been a mere symptom of Europe's rapidly expanding population and economy, of its industrialization, and its changing social structures, quickly became the means by which all of these changes took place.

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