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Chapter At A Glance
- Print culture has a long history. It changed our social lives and cultures.
- Print came into existence in East Asia and then expanded in Europe and in India.
- The earliest kind of print technology was developed in China, Japan and Korea. This was a system of hand - printing.
- Western printing techniques and mechanical presses were imported in the late nineteenth century as western powers established their outposts in China.
- Hand - printing techology was introduced in Japan by Buddhist missionaries from China.
- With the growing demand for books, woodblock printing gradually became more and more popular by the early fifteenth century. Woodblocks were being widely used in Europe.
- With a great need for quicker and cheaper reproduction of texts the invention of a new print technology was felt. It resulted in the making of the printing press.
- Print created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas and introduced a new world of debate and discussion.
- Through the seventeenth and eighteenth century literacy rates went up in most parts of Europe. As a result, new forms of popular literature appeared in print.
- The periodical press developed from the early eighteenth century. It combined information about current affairs with entertainment.
- Mass literacy made a great development in Europe in the nienteenth century. It brought in large numbers of new readers among children, women and workers.
- Through the nineteenth century, there was series of further innovations in printing technology. The power - driven cylindrical press was perfected. The offset press was developed and electrically operated press was introduced, and so on.
- India had a very rich and old tradition of handwritten manuscripts in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian and in various vernacular languages. The printing press first came to India with the Portuguese missionaries in Goa in the mid - sixteenth century. James Augustus Hickey began English printing in India.
Important Terms & Their Explanation
- Calligraphy : The art of beautiful and stylised writing
- Vellum : A parchment made from the skin of animals
- Platen : In letterpress printing, platen is a board which is pressed onto the back of the paper to get the impression from the type. At one time it is used to be a wooden board, later it was made of steel.
- Compositor : The person who composes the text for printing
- Galley : Metal frame in which types are laid and the text is composed
- Ballad : A historical account or folk tale in verse, usually sung or recited.
- Taverns : Places where people gathered to drink alcohol, to be served food, and to meet friends and exchange news
- Protestant Reformation : A sixteenth century movement to reform the Catholic Church dominated by Rome. Martin Luther was one of the main Protestant reformers. Several traditions of anti - Catholic Christianity developed out of the movement.
- Inquisition : A former Roman Catholic court for identifying and punishing heretics
- Heretical : Beliefs which do not follow the accepted teachings of the Church. In medieval times, heresy was seen as threat to the right of the Church to decide on what should be believed and what should not. Heretical beliefs were severely punished.
- Satiety : The state of being fulfilled much beyond the point of satisfaction.
- Seditious : Action, speech, or writing that is seen as opposing the government.
- Dominations : Sub - groups within a religion
- Almanac : An annual publication giving astronomical data, information about the movements of the sun and moon, timing of full tides and eclipses, and much else that was of importance in the everyday life of people.
- Chapbook : A term used to describe pocket - size books that are sold by travelling pedlars called chapmen. These became popular from the time of the sixteenth - century print revolution.
- Despotism : A system of governance in which absolute power is exercised by an individual, unregulated by legal and constitutional checks.
- Ulema : Legal scholars of Islam and the sharia (a body of Islamic law)
- Fatwa : A legal pronouncement on Islamic law usually given by mufti (legal scholar) to clarify issues on which the law is uncertain