Renaissance
Renaissance courts and workshops
1400 to 1600
Art, learning, and authority concentrated in courts, studios, and city-states.
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Renaissance
1400 to 1600
Art, learning, and authority concentrated in courts, studios, and city-states.
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13 place stories active in the same years
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Mainz · 1454 CE to 1455 CE
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Central and Eastern Europe
ca. 1454-1455 · Mainz
Mainz becomes the place where manuscript culture stops being the only way a major book can travel.
Gutenberg keeps the event human because an epochal media change still depends on one workshop solving physical problems by hand.
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