What is the significance of the Gutenberg Bible?

Answer 1

because it was the first 42 lined letter words and it was a majior turning point in our historys time , he also came up with the upper case and the lower cast letters. he called them that because he pleced the larger letters on the upper case and the smaller letters on the lower case.

Answer 2

A:The Gutenberg Bible is an edition of the Vulgate, printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany, in the 1450s. Gutenberg wisely chose The Bible as the first major book to be printed on his printing press, although it was not his first work. The Gutenberg Bible was not of such great significance as the process by which it was printed.

Although the Gutenberg Bible fetched prices that only the relatively wealthy could afford, the mass-production process meant that the Bible would soon become readily available and affordable for ordinary Christians, breaking their reliance on the clergy to read and interpret the Bible for them.

The process itself would introduce an era of mass communications in Europe and threaten the power of political and religious authorities. The rapid increase in literacy broke the monopoly of the literate elite on education and boosted the emergence of a middle class.

Answer 3

The invention of the Gutenberg press and its key innovation, movable type, enabled printed works to be created at a much faster pace. Previously, books were hand-written and finished slowly. The Gutenberg press allowed for faster and cheaper writing of print, enabling people throughout Europe to acquire books more easily. It improved literacy and allowed for ideas to be spread across the continent. On the eve of the Reformation, this was key in spreading the ideas of Protestants.

Answer 4

What his printing press allowed was a cheap source if literature. with this invention, newspapers started coming up, And because the conman man now had a book, more people could read and write.

Answer 5

The impact was unlimited and changed the world. Before the printing press books were only for the rich and very expensive, but the press opened the world to ideas to everyone because they could buy a book. One of the major changes in society was it allowed people to read the Bible without the church until that happened the church had always been the middle man between God and man. Now people could think for themselves and this took power from the church.