1.) Prior to the invention of the Printing Press, monks hand-wrote (using a quill and ink) Bibles in Latin. Each letter was paid particular attention to.
2.) The only individuals who had access to Bibles were Priests and Clergymen. Therefore the common man had to go to church in order to “read” the Bible – or at least the clergy’s interpretation of it.
3.) The Printing Press was now written in the vernacular and could be produced much more quickly as a result of this new technology.
4.) When Marco Polo returned to his home in Venice, Italy in 1295, having spent 24 years exploring China, he brought with him knowledge of “woodblock printing”.
5.) Italians began to produce books using the hand-carved block technique of cutting away the background of the wooden block, leaving raised letters. The raised letters were then inked and paper placed overtop. When removed, the result was a printed page of words and images. Sometime a page of a book would require a number of carved woodblocks joined together. The process was time consuming and not permanent. Since wood withers and cracks if it's dry and warps if it is wet, the blocks used to print pages had a limited lifespan.
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