10 Questions
What does the development of print-as-commodity contribute to?
Generation of wholly new ideas of simultaneity
Why did the nation become popular within the 'horizontal-secular, transverse-time' type of community?
Primacy of capitalism
What did Francis Bacon believe was changed by print?
The appearance and state of the world
What effect did the early printers' establishment of branches all over Europe have?
Creation of an 'international' of publishing houses
Why did the book-sellers primarily seek out works of interest to the largest possible number of their contemporaries?
To cater to the literate Europe market.
What encouraged a temporary resurgence of Latin-publishing during the Counter-Reformation?
The Counter-Reformation movement.
What was the determinative fact about Latin, aside from its sacrality?
It was a language of bilinguals.
Why did printers start peddling cheap editions in the vernaculars during the mid-seventeenth century?
Due to a shortage of money in Europe.
Why did the older Latin become arcane according to the text?
Because of what was written in it.
What contributed indirectly to the rise of national consciousness according to the text?
The change in the character of Latin itself.
Test your knowledge on the impact of print development on the rise of nationalism and the popularity of nations within communities. Explore the role of capitalism and the printing of books in the early 1500s.
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