Introduction
Page 2: American folklorist -- Stith Thompson; wiki.
Page 3: "... ept or inept..."
Page 3: ah, yes, -- the beginning of another rabbit hole -- Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, 16th century; and Faust, Goethe, 19th century. But apparently Goethe had worked on and mostly completely his Faust before he ever read Marlowe's play.
Page 4: folklorist Joseph Jacobs: wiki.
Page 4: "the North Country."
Page 5: Richard de Bury, wiki.
Page 5: practice of chaining books
Page 6: Disney's Fantasia
Page 7: author's home, the North Country, Yorkshire, Leeds
Page 9: Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbevilles
Page 11: "Bookhood" -- 19th century coinage (like "childhood" or "brotherhood"
Page 11: jodhpured -- type of breeches (jeans); named after former state in northwestern India; narrow at ankles; mostly used for riding horses
Page 12 at the bottom -- definition of bookhood -- it's all about the physicality of the book, not the contents.
Page 17: Walter Benjamin, wiki.
Page 19: mentions uncovering a rare Shakespeare first edition in a Scottish library
Chapter 1: Beginnings: East, West, and Gutenberg
Johann, or Johannes, Gutenberg, inventor, and business partner, Johann Fust
Gutenberg Bible
1,282 pages
two columns on each page
42 lines per column
thus often referred to as the "42-line Bible"
Gothic script associated with missals (priests' service books)
finished Bibles first appeared in 1455 (Columbus? 1492)
looked very much like medieval manuscripts; done on purpose
young cleric, later to be Pope Pius II
had heard about the printed quires, bundles of folded sheets
paper had watermarks
Gutenberg went bankrupt, 1455! And Fust confiscated the printing press
"selig": Dutch, blessed.
Page 29: 1453 -- Christian Constantinople fell to Ottoman army let by young Sultan Mehmed II; became an Islamic city renames Istanbul, and became the Ottoman capital.
So, it was printed anti-Turkish material, not the Gutenberg Bible, 1455, that opened the publishing floodgates -- but the Gutenberg Bible was an explicit salvo in that religious war.
The Turcica.
The Gutenberg Bible, and the printing industry itelf, thus emerged in response to the religious geopolitics of the 15th century. Wow.
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