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This 6 page paper discusses the effect of the printing press on the spread of the Reformation movement and Martin Luther's writings. Evidence given from various resources. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Luther took on the Roman Catholic Church by threatening the Church so that both their money and their power were jeopardized. There had been others before Luther who had denounced
the practices of the Roman Catholic Church but their voices had been silenced. Why, then, did Luther succeed where others had failed? Many state that the invention and introduction of
the printing press lies at the very heart of Luthers success. Works were being written at this time and varied from village to village. However, the invention of the printing
press would move language, literacy and legitimization to a new level. The first printing press would allow for the rapid production of vast amounts of reading material, most of which
was still produced for the middle class and the nobles. And these people, of course, were generally the ones who suffered the most at the hands of the Roman Catholic
Churches. In 1517 Martin Luther moved forward with his discontent. He posted a request for a public discussion concerning the current practices of the Catholic Church. "Although Wittenberg was
not yet a major printing center, Brother Martin was well acquainted with the new powers of the press. He had already acquired experience editing texts in Latin"(Eisenstein 308, see also
Eisenstein 148-152). Along with this notice was a listing of the ninety-five reasons, called Theses, which would eventually signal the beginning of the end of exclusive Catholic domination of religion.
Immediately the Roman Catholic church began to see a lessening of revenue and as a countermeasure printed their own set of counterarguments to Luthers Theses. Thus, it became a war
of words. This would have been impossible if each combatant had, had to hand copy each of these positions and theses. As it was, they continued to rail against one
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