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 Theme: Secularization of learning and culture: Reading Revolution: 1690`s The Reading Revolution took place in France during the late 1600`s and was particularly influential in secularizing learning and culture. It achieved this through enabling more public reading and learning through mass production of books and less censorship rules. As the reading Revolution advanced it spread throughout Europe into countries such as Germany and Great Brittan. The reading Revolution placed emphasis on books concerning people’s lives and society as a whole. Less focus was put on the clergy and church and new topics such as pornography were undertaken. This way the public shifted views and now concentrated on a new sort of secular learning which morphed into their culture. McKay, John P., Bennett D. Hill, and John Buckler. __A History of Western society__. 7th ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.

Clarke, Joseph. __Www.tcd.ie/__. 26 Jan. 2009. Trinity College Dublin. 19 Apr. 2009 . 

 