HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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It allowed monarchs to communicate laws to their subjects.
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It made bibles less expensive and led to a revival of religious devotion.
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It enabled religious writers to reinterpret medieval works.
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It made books less expensive and encouraged the spread of ideas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -They turned out more than 10 million copies of books in Latin and other European languages. Books became cheaper in price and available to anyone who could read them. Books were no longer chained in libraries. The spread of knowledge, both factual and not, exploded throughout Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Because Gutenberg’s press could produce books quickly and with relatively little effort, bookmaking became much less expensive, allowing more people to buy reading material. In the Middle Ages, books had been costly and education rare; only the clergy had been regular readers and owners of books.
Detailed explanation-3: -Following the introduction of printing, book prices fell steadily. The raw price of books fell by 2.4 per cent a year for over a hundred years after Gutenberg.
Detailed explanation-4: -Around the year 1455, a German machine-maker named Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing press with metal letters that could be moved around to print whatever he wanted. Copies of books could be made easily instead of one by one. The first book to be printed and sold in Europe was a copy of the Bible.