# MDT Ep. 100: Concerning the Litigious Origins of Printing

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Podcast: [Medieval Death Trip](https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766)
Published: 2023-05-12T04:18:04+00:00
Episode link: https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/mdt-ep-100-concerning-the-litigious-origins-of-printing/
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Duration seconds: 4773

## Resource

For our 100th episode, we look at one of the technologies that marks an endpoint for the middle ages, the printing press, and consider how Johann Gutenberg may be a prototype for today's paranoid tech tycoons and the lawsuits that so often dog them. Today's Texts: Van der Linde's, A. The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing. Translated by J.H. Hessels, Blades, East, & Blades, 1871. Google Books. Schröder, Edward. Das Mainzer Fragment vom Weltgericht. Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1908. Archive.org. Trithemius, Johannes. "From In Praise of Scribes." In Writing Material: Readings from Plato to the Digital Age. Edited by Evelyn B. Tribble and Anne Trubek, Longman, 2003, pp. 469-475. Music Credit: Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, II. Adagio, performed by Skidmore College Orchestra and made available under the CC-PD license on MusOpen.org.

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