“When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.” Historical PerspectiveMedia StudiesContextualization Book:The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe Source: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe