St Mary's is a Grade I listed building which dates back to the 1400s.
"The idea that one is dehumanized by consuming more media has been around since the 1400s, " he says.
According to stories, a ship from the Chinese admiral's fleet is thought to have foundered off the coast of Kenya in the early 1400s.
For the most part, the last disruptive change in the book industry was back in the 1400s, when Johannes Gutenberg printed a bible with movable type.
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The fresco, which depicts four angels against a starry blue background, was painted by two Italians, Francesco Pagano and Paolo de San Leocadio, in the late 1400s.
Using it, he has built up a series of tree-ring chronologies from Thailand and Vietnam that indicate a period of severe drought across mainland South-East Asia in the early 1400s.
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It became an empire in the 1400s, and its final sovereign emperor died in 1533, officially ending the period of constructing the buildings and roads that lure visitors to this day.
"The phrase 'Renaissance Man' was derived from him, " says David S. Goyer, who has spent a lot of time studying and pondering him, and has created "Da Vinci's Demons, " a sci-fi thriller set in the 1400s.
"We've also got some of the earliest examples of printing in the world, from the 1400s, from Gutenberg and from Caxton and a rare edition of the complete works printed by Kelmscott Press by William Morris, " he added.
Local legend has it that Mary Queen of Scots spent a night there while a prisoner at Sheffield Castle, and in the perimeter wall there is a monument to a young man killed by a stag in the late 1400s.
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