AP®︎ European History: Topic 1.4 Flashcards

Mainz printer who developed a commercially practical European movable-type printing system in the 1450s

Mechanical and organizational system that reproduced many substantially identical pages quickly and lowered the cost per copy for large print runs

Reusable individual metal characters arranged to form pages, then redistributed for later printing

A text written or copied by hand; its production was slow and labor-intensive, and individual copies could vary

The circulation or spread of information and ideas

An ordinary spoken regional language, such as English or French, as distinct from scholarly Latin

The network of printers, publishers, booksellers, readers, and practices surrounding printed material

Latin Vulgate Bible printed at Mainz around 1454–1455, showing that printing could produce numerous substantially identical copies while retaining manuscript conventions

Printer who established a Westminster press in 1476 and expanded English vernacular print, including Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Humanist use of linguistic and historical analysis to determine the meaning and authenticity of texts