Question
The invention of the printing press in Europe increased the volume and rapidity of communication, thereby
Question 15 options:
a)
making it more difficult to censor problematic or dissenting opinions.
b)
making books even more precious than they had been in the Middle Ages.
c)
encouraging greater levels of censorship.
d)
creating the circumstances for the invention of broadsheets in the fifteenth century.
e)
increasing the cost of books.
Question 15 options:
a)
making it more difficult to censor problematic or dissenting opinions.
b)
making books even more precious than they had been in the Middle Ages.
c)
encouraging greater levels of censorship.
d)
creating the circumstances for the invention of broadsheets in the fifteenth century.
e)
increasing the cost of books.
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c) encouraging greater levels of censorship.
Explanation: The press multiplied and sped the spread of ideas, provoking Church and state authorities to develop licensing, bans (Index Librorum Prohibitorum), and other censorship mechanisms to control printing and circulation of dissenting or heretical views.
Explanation: The press multiplied and sped the spread of ideas, provoking Church and state authorities to develop licensing, bans (Index Librorum Prohibitorum), and other censorship mechanisms to control printing and circulation of dissenting or heretical views.