The media revolution and the world of print

Lecture by Gérald Chaix, Rector of the Académie, academic and historian, as part of the event "Strasbourg and the Oberrhein at the time of Gutenberg: 1450-1550". Organized by Storia Mundi.

Densely populated and urbanized, economically and culturally developed, the Upper Rhine was the most dynamic region of the Holy Roman Empire from the mid-15th century to the 1520s. It was here that the "print revolution", linked to the name of Gutenberg, began and developed rapidly, notably in Strasbourg (1458) and Basel (1468). Until the end of the 16th century, the region remained one of the key centres for the material evolution of books and, more broadly, of print. Then, in connection with the "media revolution", associated here with Sébastien Brant, we'll highlight the specific features of humanism and religious aspirations up to the 1520s. Finally, we'll look back at the profound upheavals, observable from the 1520s onwards, that repositioned the Upper Rhine region within the Holy Roman Empire and on a European scale.

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