https://zhangdsb.podbean.com When we look back at Gutenberg’s printing press, the standard historical narrative usually centers on the numbers: cheaper texts, a surge in literacy, and a sudden explosion of available information. But does focusing purely on book production miss the most radical aspect of the print era?

]]> Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:59:39 -0300 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. History 1440 episodic zhangdsb zhangdsb No false https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/22407681/8261780871623_picanhtu.jpg https://zhangdsb.podbean.com 144 144 Who Gets to Speak? https://zhangdsb.podbean.com/e/who-gets-to-speak-print-power-and-authority-in-early-modern-europe/ https://zhangdsb.podbean.com/e/who-gets-to-speak-print-power-and-authority-in-early-modern-europe/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:59:39 -0300 zhangdsb.podbean.com/d695a15b-b0ae-3433-bbab-bcefe2d35ca0 This episode explores how movable type did not just make communication faster; it structurally redistributed authority. By allowing ideas, criticisms, and opinions to travel independently of direct personal transmission, print shattered the information monopoly held by medieval institutions like the churches, royal governments, and elite universities.

]]> This episode explores how movable type did not just make communication faster; it structurally redistributed authority. By allowing ideas, criticisms, and opinions to travel independently of direct personal transmission, print shattered the information monopoly held by medieval institutions like the churches, royal governments, and elite universities.

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