HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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the spread of the plague
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the discovery of the New World
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the patronage of King Henry VIII
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the invention of the printingpress
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Detailed explanation-1: -The clash between Luther and the Catholic Church in Rome was also history’s first “media event.” Johannes Gutenberg’s development of the moveable-type printing press about seventy-five years earlier had a profound impact on the spread of Luther’s thought.
Detailed explanation-2: -His broadside against Catholic Church practices might have gone unnoticed were it not for the introduction a few decades earlier of a new technology: the printing press.
Detailed explanation-3: -Though the Roman Catholic Church maintained that only members of the clergy were qualified to interpret the Bible, this new degree of access to religious texts provided impetus for a growing reformist movement. With the advent of Luther’s Theses, the printing press became central to the Protestant cause and ideology.
Detailed explanation-4: -The printing press helped spread Martin Luther’s ideas as it printed and spread the 95 Theses.
Detailed explanation-5: -How did Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press contribute to the Reformation? The Bible was printed in vernacular languages leading to greater criticism of the Church.