and much else” owe their existence to the printing press, said the BBC. The major intellectual movements that swept through Europe in the early modern era – the Renaissance, the Enlightenment ...

We live in a time of distinction overload, namely a proliferation of distinctions that are employed in all aspects of contemporary political, economic, and social life.

The Renaissance was a period in history that ... An engraving showing a Gutenberg printing press. Before Johannes Gutenberg's invention, reproducing a book involved copying it by hand.

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art ... occurred around 1450—the invention of the printing press—and it made cheap paper available all over Europe.