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which emphasize time are those which are durable in character
such as parchment, clay and stone. . . . Media which emphasize
space are apt to be less durable and light in character such as
papyrus and paper.”
With the availability of quantities of manufactured paper,
especially after the twelfth century, the growth of bureaucratic
and centralist organization of distant areas got under way
again. Pirenne writes (p. 211):
One of the most striking phenomena of the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is the rapid growth of
great commercial companies, each with its affiliations,
correspondents and factors in different parts of the
Continent. The example of the powerful Italian companies
in the thirteenth century had now found followers north