1. How did the ideas of the Renaissance spread?
The Printing Press!

2. 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

3. Illuminated Manuscripts:
Beautiful but oh so time consuming…

4. 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

5. Chinese Print Technology
Movable Type had existed in China starting in the 1000s
Woodblock Print and the tools used to make it

6. Gutenberg’s Improvements
Gutenberg's main innovations were
the printer's ink
the making of type
the use of a press
the production process itself

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. The Press
The type
The
Ink

11. The Scriptorium
A leaf from Catholic Church. Book of Hours. Rouen, France, ca

12. The Production Process

13. The Gutenberg Bible How does this compare to the medieval text we looked at earlier?

14. 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.

15. What ideas will be spread?
Artistic Innovations and Techniques
Science and Technology
Knowledge about new lands
Political Theories
Humanism