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SUMMARY:Scholarly publication in the seventeenth century: Oxford\, Cambrid
 ge and the 'learned press' - Dr Gordon Johnson (Honorary Fellow and Former
  President\, Wolfson College)
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CONTACT:Dr Rachel E. Holmes
DESCRIPTION:During the course of the seventeenth century the two English\n
 universities greatly expanded their printing and publishing operations.Pre
 viously\, Oxford and Cambridge had tended to use their privilege to print 
 theological tracts\, bibles\, prayer books\, and text books. But progressi
 vely through the 1600s senior academics argued that the universities had a
  special responsibility to disseminate new knowledge and learning. This pr
 oved to be technically challenging and costly to\ndo\, and their legal rig
 ht to print as they pleased was questioned\, not least by the Stationers' 
 Company. At a time when there were still attempts to censor and control wh
 at was published\, when investment in the printed word (as now) was a high
  risk business operation\, and before the establishment of clear rules of 
 copyright\, a picture emerges of a vibrant\, vigorous but volatile publish
 ing world that unsettled minds and was a precursor of the Enlightenment.\n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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