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What does the development of print-as-commodity contribute to?
What does the development of print-as-commodity contribute to?
Why did the nation become popular within the 'horizontal-secular, transverse-time' type of community?
Why did the nation become popular within the 'horizontal-secular, transverse-time' type of community?
What did Francis Bacon believe was changed by print?
What did Francis Bacon believe was changed by print?
What effect did the early printers' establishment of branches all over Europe have?
What effect did the early printers' establishment of branches all over Europe have?
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Why did the book-sellers primarily seek out works of interest to the largest possible number of their contemporaries?
Why did the book-sellers primarily seek out works of interest to the largest possible number of their contemporaries?
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What encouraged a temporary resurgence of Latin-publishing during the Counter-Reformation?
What encouraged a temporary resurgence of Latin-publishing during the Counter-Reformation?
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What was the determinative fact about Latin, aside from its sacrality?
What was the determinative fact about Latin, aside from its sacrality?
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Why did printers start peddling cheap editions in the vernaculars during the mid-seventeenth century?
Why did printers start peddling cheap editions in the vernaculars during the mid-seventeenth century?
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Why did the older Latin become arcane according to the text?
Why did the older Latin become arcane according to the text?
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What contributed indirectly to the rise of national consciousness according to the text?
What contributed indirectly to the rise of national consciousness according to the text?
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