Question

 With reference to the Reformation, answer these questions :-

i) Who invented the printing press and how?

 

ii) How did the Protestant Movement change the church practices?

 

iii) Write a short note on Catholic Reformation.
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Answer 1

i) In Germany, around 1440, goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. Modelled on the design of existing screw presses, a single Renaissance printing press could produce up to 3,600 pages per workday, compared to forty by hand-printing and a few by hand-copying.

iii) Counter-Reformation, also called Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival, in the history of Christianity, the Roman Catholic efforts directed in the 16th and early 17th centuries both against the Protestant Reformation and toward internal renewal.