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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Then the printing press fragmented and diluted the power of the elites. For example, I believe that it's no coincidence that Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation came very soon after Gutenberg; in fact, I believe it was inevitable.

EDIT: well what do you know... it was Martin Luther himself who translated the famous Gutenberg Bible. Talk about one degree of Kevin Bacon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

EDIT: well what do you know… it was Martin Luther himself who translated the famous Gutenberg Bible. Talk about one degree of Kevin Bacon.

Huh? The Gutenberg Bible is a Latin vulgate edition, and it was printed three decades before Luther was even born.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Google threw the following text at me:

Yes, Martin Luther did translate the Gutenberg Bible from Latin, Hebrew, and Greek into German. His translation was then printed at a high number and distributed in 1534. This was one of the first times that the Bible became accessible for the masses in their own language.

So I misunderstood the time jump.