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religion. His outline of a history of English prose has yet to be
examined seriously by literary historians. When, for example,
Bacon says: “Then grew the learning of the Schoolmen to be
utterly despised as barabarous” he does not say that he
himself despises it. He has no respect for the ornate and
affected eloquence that was currently trumped up.
After this outline of some of the features of applied
knowledge in Bacon’s medievalism, it is time to consider some
of the applications of print technology to individual and
national life. And here it is necessary to consider writers and
the vernaculars as shaped by the new extension of the visual
image by means of the press.
Some writers have recently suggested that we can almost
regard the whole of creative writing since the Renaissance as