William Caxton, the Printing Press, and Edward IV
Tudors Dynasty
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We know that Edward IV had a rather large library of books. On this episode the wonderful Danie Burton joins us to discuss Edward IV's introduction to printed books, when the printing press was brought to England, and the man who brought it.
Imagine a world where books had to be written by hand. While it guaranteed beautiful craftmanship it was not accessible to all. The printing press introduced a world to medieval England that many could not have imagined.
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Hosted by: Rebecca Larson
Guest: Danie Burton - Twitter Website
Editing: Rebecca Larson
Voice Over: David Black
Music by: Ketsa, Alexander Nakarada, and Winnie the Moog via FilmMusic.io, used by EXTENDED license.
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| 0:49.1 | Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Rebecca. |
| 0:52.4 | On today's episode, I chat with Danny Burton about William |
| 0:57.6 | Kaxston, the printing press in England, and the involvement of Edward VIII, Margaret of York, |
| 1:04.4 | and Anthony Woodville. If you love the time period of the Wars of the Roses, you will definitely |
| 1:10.2 | enjoy this episode because it's going to give you some insight into life during that time period of the Wars of the Roses, you will definitely enjoy this episode because it's |
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| 1:16.1 | discovered before. So without further ado, Danny, welcome. Hi, good to see for you. I'm so excited to |
| 1:24.8 | have you on the show today. And I know I say that with every single guest that comes on, but I really am excited to talk about today's topic because we're going to be talking about the printing press, William Caxton, and some of the involvement of King Edward the 4th. |
| 1:40.5 | So, Danny, help us understand how different was life in England prior to the arrival of the |
| 1:48.9 | printing press? How did people read books and how did they see pamphlets? How did that all work? |
| 1:55.2 | So really, it was very much, if they did see books on pamphlets, was mainly through the church so a lot of it was |
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