Ada Palmer
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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One thing I wanted to ask you, back to the printing press.
So not only does printing get cheaper, but around this time, paper itself also gets cheaper.
So like, not just reading, but writing gets cheaper.
Yes, yes.
And do you as historians...
Just see a market change in this period in the amount of records that are taken and as a result, our understanding?
And so what changes around this time?
How is Europe able to get the paper?
Interesting.
So this is a digression, but the...