Religious Impact of the Invention of Printing

Samuel Hartlib, who was exile in Britain also excited about communal and cultural reform, wrote in 1641 to facilitate "the art of printing will extend information that the general people, knowing their own privileges and liberty, will not be govern by way of domination". For both churchmen as well as governments, it was about that print allowed reader; eventually include those from all classes of culture, to study spiritual texts and politically responsive issues by themselves, as a substitute of thinking mediate by the religious and political establishment.

It took a long time for printing to enter Russia and the Orthodox Christian planet, a region where reading aptitude was largely limited to the clergy. In 1564, a White Russian brings a printing press to Moscow, and later than that his workshop was shattered by a mob.