The book that transformed medieval England
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Is Caxton's Printing a World Language?
printing is very much a continental innovations and innovation. It starts sort of in German cities, and then it spreads quite soon to Italy as well. If you wanted to do something with printing at this time, this is where you would go. So there is nothing in England. There is no infrastructure. Nobody has the skill that there are no tradesmen,. The kind of practical things that you would need for it. None of that is being manufactured in England. All on the continent.
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