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Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries

Buringh, Eltjo, Van Zanden, Jan Luiten·2009·The Journal of Economic History
DOI 10.1017/s0022050709000837
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This article estimates the development of manuscripts and printed books in Western Europe over the course of thirteen centuries. As these estimates show, medieval and early modern book production was a dynamic economic sector, with an average annual growth rate of around one percent. Rising production after the middle of the fifteenth century probably resulted from lower book prices and higher literacy. To explain the dynamics of medieval book production, we provide estimates for urbanization rates and for the numbers of universities and monasteries. Monasteries seem to have been most important in the early period, while universities and laypeople dominated the later medieval demand for books.

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Authors
Buringh, E., & Van Zanden, J. L.
Venue
The Journal of Economic History
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2009-06
Volume
69
Issue
2
Pages
409-445
ISSN
  • 0022-0507 (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-6372
DOI
10.1017/s0022050709000837
OpenAlex
W2145902077
Cited by
306
References
47
FWCI
166.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)

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