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The medieval world ended in a frenzy of applied knowledge—
new medieval knowledge applied to the recreation of
antiquity.
Renaissance Italy became a kind of Hollywood collection of sets
of antiquity, and the new visual antiquarianism of the
Renaissance provided an avenue to power for men of any
class.
Medieval idols of the king
The invention of typography confirmed and extended the new
visual stress of applied knowledge, providing the first
uniformly repeatable “commodity,” the first assembly line,
and the first mass production.