Please compose one essay drawn from the following list. Your essay should be between 500 and 750 words (two to three pages in length, typed and double- spaced). The best essays have these four elements: Please follow these instructions

1. A clear introductory paragraph, which sets out the issues being addressed.

2. A thesis statement (please underline), which tells the reader about the author's main point.

3. A series of paragraphs constructed to support the author's main argument, including specific evidence. Be sure to discuss this evidence, assessing its strengths and limitations.

4. A conclusion that draws together the different threads of the argument, while suggesting the overall importance of the subject.

Question:

Not surprisingly His Majesty is interested in the media in his era. What are the most important forms of media, and how have they changed and developed between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries?

What role has the media played in the spread of such movements as Renaissance humanism and religious reform?

Here one can think of printing but also other forms of media, and the ways they intersect with other technologies, economic developments and social patterns.

Please use the following book to answer the question.

Ku¨min, Beat. The European World 1500 - 1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History, 2nd Ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. ISBN: 978-0415628648