Printing Press Revolutionized Literature And Religion In Europe

How the Printing Press Revolutionized Literature and Religion in Europe Previous to Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press, there was minimal spread of literature in Europe. If one desired to rewrite a specific publication, he or she would have to endure a painstaking process that would be considered a prolonged duration compared to the amount of time taken to do so in the present day. The reason for such a lengthy and unbearable process is because the writer would have to duplicate the novel by carving it word for word onto surfaces of either clay, papyrus, wax, or parchment. Such a laborious procedure resulted in little advances during the beginning of the Renaissance, a period of time in which knowledge and new ideals were craved by the people of Europe. In an effort to assemble a more fruitful technique to producing works of writing, Gutenberg brought about the invention of the printing press. Immediately, Gutenberg’s

Block printing was a procedure that involved engraving manuscript onto a wooden block, inking the block and eventually printing the written work onto a piece of paper. In an attempt to continue the success of the printing business in Asia, Chinese inventor Bi Sheng introduced the first movable type. Although a more modernized invention, the Chinese considered the movable type to be impractical because it did little to accelerate the printing procedure for their language, one that contains thousand of symbols and characters. However, when the movable type reached Europe in approximately 1045, it was considered a major improvement and extraordinarily innovative. Not only did the movable type replace the previous technique of having a scribe handwrite all novels, but it also encouraged Johannes Gutenberg to create the printing press, an invention that would revolutionize Europe's traditional