INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES

[Thiudareiks Flavius]

Robert wrote:<br>
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Quote:</em></strong><hr> ... post-renaissance, it's the press.<hr><br>
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"Post-<em>Renaissance</em>"? Invented in 1450 AD, as a result of medieval market forces which had been trying to tackle the cheap/mass production of books by other means for centuries, responding to a growing medieval non-clerical literate class of readers (and consumers) and a result of the late medieval tendancy towards mechanisation, the printing press is a decidely and definitely a <strong><em>medieval</em></strong> invention by every possible definition.<br>
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Unless, of course, you subscribe to the (il)logic of shifting the dates of the so-called "Renaissance" around so it encompasses any medieval development that can't be reconciled with a so-called "dark age". I've seen people claim Chaucer and even Dante as Renaissance poets and argue that Giotto was "really" a "Renaissance artist.<br>
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Don't get me wrong - most Renaissance architecture and nearly all Renaissance art was truly revolutionary and excellent. But let's give the Middle Ages their due, please. They suffer from that out-dated and erroneous "dark age" myth enough already.<br>
Cheers, <p>Tim O'Neill / Thiudareiks Flavius<br>
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