How did the ideas of the Renaissance spread? The Printing Press!
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How did the ideas of the Renaissance spread?
The Printing Press!
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Before the Renaissance…• Book-making was slow,
expensive, and done by hand• It took 4-5 months to copy
200 pages• Few people could read or write
– Mostly clergy (religious figures)
– Mostly in Latin
• The Church owned most books
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Illuminated Manuscripts:
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Beautiful but oh so time consuming…
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Johann Gutenberg
• Gutenberg was from Mainz, Germany
• He invented a mechanical way of producing books that surpassed any existing technology
• His first book was printed between 1450 and 1455
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Chinese Print Technology
• Movable Type had existed in China starting in the 1000s
• Woodblock Print and the tools used to make it
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Gutenberg’s Improvements
Gutenberg's main innovations were
1. the printer's ink
2. the making of type
3. the use of a press
4. the production process itself
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The Ink
• It was not really ink at all, more like an oil paint
• It is unlike writing-ink, which was water-based
• Water-based ink would have run off the metal types. Instead the thick, oil-based varnish stuck to them.
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The Press
• One of Gutenberg's most radical ideas was to use a press for printing.
• Presses had been around for a long time, but were used for other purposes, notably wine-making.
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The Types• Types = Letters, Punctuation marks, and other
signs• Gutenberg invented a way of mass-producing
them• They were made out of metal• They could be put together to form words,
sentences, and pages• After printing the page, the types could then be
reused
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The Press
TheInk
The type
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The Scriptorium
A leaf from Catholic Church. Book of Hours. Rouen, France, ca. 1490.
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The Production Process
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The Gutenberg BibleHow does this compare to the medieval text we
looked at earlier?
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Gutenberg’s Impact
• Gutenberg's invention did not make him rich• It made books easier to produce and cheaper to buy• Books, newspapers and pamphlets became mass-produced• Materials were published in the vernacular, or common
language of the people• Literacy rates increased, and ideas spread rapidly.• People were able to debate and discuss matters that
concerned them. • There were more attempts at censorship, as those in
authority felt threatened by the new abundance of information• Sparked many religious revolutions. Allowed the
common man to posses a Bible for his own interpretation.
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What ideas will be spread?• Artistic Innovations and Techniques
• Science and Technology
• Knowledge about new lands
• Political Theories
• Humanism