[PW] Negative reactions to the invention of printing

[Callum]

No authenticity concerns spring to mind, the two most significant negative reactions would probably be political ones -- (i) the (Catholic) church's concerns about the proliferation of "uncontrolled" bibles, particularly as this was a key factor in bible's translation from Latin so that mere commoners could read it (it was after all a capital offence to read it in anything other than Latin (the Latin versions were considered more "correct" than even the Hebrew and Greek they came from)), and (2) Henry VIII's introduction of "prior restraint" legislation.

You may wish to try Elizabeth Eisenstein's "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change", CUP 1983.


  Callum



>This should be easy, but it isn't. I am looking for early post-Gutenberg 
>examples of negative reactions to the invention of printing and the 
>proliferation of printed books, especially in context of clinging to 
>handwritten books as the only authentic method.
>
>Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
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