Zusammenfassung der Ressource
THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRINTING & NEW LITERACY
- Printing was a important
contributer to the
religious changes
- Ideas/words would of not spread
so rapidly + more accessible to
'ordinary' people
- Towns would become
book fairs where you could
exchange copies or it
became production centres
(Venice, Paris)
- Before 1450 - Woodcuts
would be produced &
books were copied by hand
- Centuries of copying
books by hand was
inaccurate & added errors
- Identical texts now
available
- Cheap paper was
produced (made
from rags) whilst
before there was
paper was called
parchment (made
from sheepskin)
- Church wanted
Latin Bibles, copies
of the service
books
- Demand for humanist
books (Italy)
- Grammars/dictionaries/mathematics/medicine
books in demand
- IMPACT OF PRINTING
- Printing had
increased the
public's
knowledge
- Books played a huge
part in shaping new
religious opinion
- Could glorify church
OR undermine it
- Anyone who had money or
access to the library could
obtain a text
- Erasmus' work
was very popular
- 3000 copies of his
New Testament sold
- Handbook of a Christen Soldier (1503)
was the most read & translated works of
the 16th century
- Luther's work -
300,000 copies
were printed
between
1517-1520
- Translation of the Bible into
German sold 200,000 copies
in 12years
- Even though lots of copies were
sold - we do not know if the
people read it
- Books were read out -
perhaps the boring bits which
may have been the important
bits were missed out?
- 4-5% of the population of Germany were
literate - preaching/word of mouth more
important?