books.google.co.uk - After re-examining fundamental aspects of the printing revolution of the early modern period, David McKitterick argues that many changes associated with printing were only gradually absorbed over almost 400 years, a much longer period than usually suggested. From the 1450s onwards, the printed word and...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Print_Manuscript_and_the_Search_for_Orde.html?id=OMs9WQXpIXIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePrint, Manuscript, and the Search for Order