2-14-13

Probs

  • people were illiterate
  • school was expensive
  • family who could afford it would only send sons
  • needed nobility in blood to get in

Womens rights

  • Christine de Pizon
    • highly educated
    • questioned why boys and girls arnt equal
    • one of the few authors who promoted womens rights
    • she thought that men and women should have the same education. but this was not accomplished untill like a couple centrurys later

Johann Gutenberg

  • around 1440 he develped a printing press that incorporated a numver of technologies
  • he was german
  • using his press he printed out the bible, the Gutenberg bible around 1455

Legacy

  • new art
  • new mediums
  • painting were portraying people
    • more life like
  • arts were praised for achievments
  • art was secular and religious

Changes in Society

  • printing changed society by making more info availible and inexpensive
  • greater acailibility of books- desire to learn
  • print maps and charts
  • question political and religious structers
  • published legal procedings like laws and ordinanced, to let people know if they were doing something wrong.

 

 

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