Gutenberg???

Question

I haven't been able to find much information on the Gutenberg Bible. I have found out what it was printed on and stuff like that but my question is:
What were the effects of the Gutenberg Bible on society (for that time)?

If you can't answer this particular question please throw in any info about him that I may not have yet. Thanks :)

Answer 1

~Put simply, it did two things.

First, it put the bible in the hands of the masses (actually, not really the masses since most people couldn't read, but enough) so they could read it for themselves. This began to eat at the power of the church. One no longer had to rely on the local priest to read "The Word" and the church lost its monopoly on interpretation of the scriptures, which, in turn, helped bring about the Reformation.

Second, as the first mass produced book, it taught people the value of literacy and eventually created a boom in books, publishing, the dissemination of ideas and education. Use you common sense. What would happen to a society that had no (or very few) books and suddenly a whole new industry explodes around writing and publishing?

Answer 2

I live in Germany and the Gutenberg Bible is the first mass produced book. At the time the Church had more control on religion as they possessed the Bible and could tell people what to believe. As the Bible was mass produced it was available to other persons besides Church scholars. If you can read something it gives you the power to interpret the facts yourself rather than have someone tell you what the facts are. Anyway there was the Religious Reformation in Europe where Christian denominations such as the Lutherans broke away from the Catholic Church based on their own interpretation of the Bible. I think for research you should look up the invention of Printing or the Reformation.

Answer 3

The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible that was printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany in the fifteenth century. Although it is not, as often thought, the first book to be printed by Gutenberg's new movable type system, it is his major work, and has iconic status as the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the "Age of the Printed Book".

The detailed format of printed bible is a possible imitation of a Mainz illuminated manuscript, the so called Giant Bible of Mainz (Biblia latina), whose 1300 pages were written between 1452 and 1453.



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Answer 4

The bible itself did change the society because now many people were able to read it, if they could read, or just to have a bible at home. But the better effect was the printing itself: Now many books could be published very easily and many people felt that they could say their own opinion. So in the following decades many of the works of Galilei, Luther, old Romans and Greeks, and so on were publsihed to a wide audience, many people saw ideas they never had thought of before. During the time of the witch hunting in Europe many anonymous textes were printed in which the authors wrote against witch hunting and the people read about those ideas. So, the effect was ha complete change in society - and more or less the Gutenberg Bilbe started the Age of Enlightment.

Answer 5

His discovery allowed the spread of culture because the printed book are less expensive than the written book and they take less time to make it. After his printed Bible, all european could have one. That was never seen before because a book was a luxuous thing!

Answer 6

MOVABLE TYPE! It was the first book made with movable type. It lowered the cost and time of making a book, before movable type you had to have a scribe hand copy the book (in this case the bible).

It made it possible for everyone to own and have access to books. Of course the bible was the first thing they copied, because they felt it was the most important. Many other types of books followed.

Soon after books came newpapers, and the rest is history.

Answer 7

the first book printed of the book of psalms. Not the whole bible. And it changed the world as much as anything. Think of it as the first time a idea could be shared with the whole world.

Answer 8

Johann Gutenberg was the inventor of the printing press... in 1455.

The first thing ever printed was... a Bible, now called "The Gutenberg Bible".

It was a Latin language Bible, printed in Germany.

Here is a biographical overview of Gutenberg:
http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/gutenberg.html

If you want the full context of the story of the printed Bible, it is here:
http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/index.html

Answer 9

no idea