The Introduction of the Codex

In this episode I discuss the invention of the codex and how it impacted religion when it was invented. I discuss other types of technologies like writing and the printing press in regards to how the codex has impacted it. Later in the episode we go into how the codex has changed the digital world that we live in today.

Sources used

Elizabeth Eisenstein, “In the Wake of the Printing Press” The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress Vol. 35, no. 3 (July 1978): 183–197. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29781778?sid=primo&seq=1

Christopher de Hamel, The Book: A History of the Bible (London, 2001), pp. 1–39. https://tcu.brightspace.com/d2l/le/content/374371/viewContent/4316687/View

Ramsay MacMullen, “The Epigraphic Habit in the Roman Empire,” American Journal of Philology Vol. 103, no. 3 (1982): 233–246. https://www.jstor.org/stable/294470?sid=primo

Stuart, Hailey. “Digital Tools 2.” Technologies of History. February 20, 2026. https://technologies-of-history.github.io/spring-2026/Stuart-dt2/