Discussion Summary

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Discussion Summary

• Created by Adam Diaz

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Overview

• Writing Material Development
• Conceptions of The Book and illuminated
  manuscripts

• Development of Printing
• Development of Type
• Impact of printing on the West

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Development of Writing Materials

• Hieroglyphics- Cave Walls
• Stone

• Parchment
• Paper

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Conceptions of The Book and Illuminated
Manuscripts

• Information concentration
• Some of the first books
• Book of the Dead (Egyptian)
• Book of Durrow (Celtic)
• Book of Kells (Celtic)

• Other Milestone Works
• The Bible
• Canterbury Tales

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Development of Printing

• Limited quantities of works
• Privileged were literate, few others
• Printing Press changes everything
• Mass Production
• Gives way to new ideas, the birth of fiction genre

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Development of Type

• Origins of Alphabet
• Evolution of Type
• Idea of Fonts
• Personal Typography
• Period Styles

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Impact of Printing on the West

• Wealth of Knowledge
• Gave rise to literacy
• Knowledge Power
• Enormously important advent for the power of the
  imagination

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Conclusion

• Important Developments
• Printing Press
• The Book and Illuminated Manuscripts
• Interesting things to note
• Development of type
• Personal styles of writing