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was good.’
The manuscript shaped medieval literary conventions at all
levels.
* Hadas pursues this theme elsewhere in his excellent
work. And it is taken up again for the medieval period by H. J.
Chaytor in From Script to Print , a book to which the present
one owes a good deal of its reason for being written.
No one is likely to contest the statement that the
invention of printing and the development of that art
mark a turning-point in the history of civilization. Not so
readily appreciated is the fact that association with
printed matter has changed our views of literary art and
style, has introduced ideas concerning originality and