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complex markets, price-systems, and commercial empires
inconceivable to oral and even to manuscript cultures.
The same urge to translate the tactile skills of the older
crafts into the visual magnificence of the Renaissance rituals
provided an aesthetic medievalism in the North, and in Italy
inspired the recreation of ancient art, letters and architecture.
The same sensibility that led the Dukes of Burgundy and Berry
to their très riches heures led the Italian merchant princes to
restore ancient Rome. It was a kind of applied archeological
knowledge in both cases. The same applied knowledge in the
interests of new visual intensity and control inspired Gutenberg
and led to two centuries of medievalism of a scope and degree
unknown to the Middle Ages themselves. For until printing, very
few books ancient or medieval were available at all. Those that
existed were seen by few. The same situation obtained in