| The typography is the art and technique of selection and management types originally from lead, to create print jobs. The printing press was developed in the boom Renaissance However, the first printed Johannes Gutenberg as 42-line Bible used a font style of the period Gothic call texture, fracture or Old English style.
During the middle Ages the culture of the book revolved around the Christian monasteries, which arguably made of publishers in the modern sense. The books were not printed but written by monks who specialize in this task were called copyists, They developed their work in a place that was in most monasteries called scriptorium which had a library and a lounge with a kind similar to desktops lecterns the churches of today. Here, the monks transcribed books from the library, either on behalf of a feudal lord or another monastery.
During the Gothic, Europe gradually returned to an economic system dependent on city-and not as it was traditionally field for most of the middle Ages, which led to the birth of Guilds, Which gave way to increased production of books. Books, usually religious, were commissioned by wealthy patterns in a guild of artists books, which have trained specialists in signs, decorative capitals, decorative letters, corrected galleys and binding, as this is a completely handmade process, a book 200 pages could get delayed for 5 to 6 months, and required about 25 sheep skins to make vellum where he wrote and illustrated with egg tempera, gouache and a primitive form of oil.
The cities that were strengthened during the Gothic period were those of northern Europe, such as Paris, London and a large number of German cities, which were the first to adopt the guild system, in addition to this, the city determined the birth of universities, which drove up demand for manuscripts and suggested the need to find a new way book production, massive and much cheaper. |
