They might be a little backwards ,but it's possible you might find locals that would be willing to accept you.
You Wake Up and Find Yourself back In The 11th Century
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They might be a little backwards ,but it's possible you might find locals that would be willing to accept you.
AnyaKimlin
Confuddled
Of course , you could invent the Gutenberg printing press and sell it to the church.
Before or after you're burned for Witchcraft?
For inventing a printing press?
AnyaKimlin
Confuddled
Why not? As late as the last decade of 1600s people were labelling inventors as witches or wizards. The Wizard of Gordonstoun invented several things of use and may have been experimenting with electricity and the locals called him the "Wizard". A couple of decades earlier he may well have found himself tried and convicted as a witch.
Gutenburg was a blacksmith, goldsmith etc which meant he had explainable understandable skills.
But how printing press works would have been perfectly understandable even to the mindset of the 11th century. They had some mechanical technology even at that time.
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I don't think the printing press was the problem - it was producing the Bible with one, in a world where the Roman Catholic Church had strict control over over its distribution.
I don't think the printing press was the problem - it was producing the Bible with one, in a world where the Roman Catholic Church had strict control over over its distribution.
If offered it to the church , wouldn't that have been a good thing? Yes it would put the monks illuminating manuscripts out of the job, but it would enable them to print more books and bibles, In effect , give them a leg up on the publishing industry?
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AnyaKimlin
Confuddled
If you produced the printing press without any track record then you might run the risk of being accused of selling your soul to the devil.
They had siege engine technology, windmills , architects and builders in that time. If someone out of the blue invented a mechanical labour saving device like a printing press doesn't necessity mean inventor gets burned at the stake.
Ray McCarthy
Sentient Marmite: The Truth may make you fret.
It depends what you printed on it.
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There were a wide array of schisms, heresies and disagreements about religious stuff. Even marriage vows are based on a mistranslation (love, honour and obey should be love, honour and respect). Easy to imagine a stray pronoun (filioque: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque) causing serious ructions.
Harpo
Getting away with it
And of course there was the invention of the typographical error, which caused a few problems later on
AnyaKimlin
Confuddled
Of course not but you could be accused of selling your soul to the devil to get the ability to make the printing press. People were suspicious. If you were a time-served smith or engineer of some description it would be less suspicious. If you come out of nowhere with a new technology then pitch forks at dawn is a possibility.
interestedly, the Chinese invented movable type in the 11th century. I wonder how the europeans of that era would have reacted to this kind of innovation if it had been brought to them via a delegation from China ?
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But Harpo, I'm unmarried! Can I commit fornication instead, sir?
I think any inventor would do his or her best to avoid those given the climate of the 11th centuryAnd of course there was the invention of the typographical error, which caused a few problems later on
Well, remember, it was the easy availability of printed Bibles - for anyone who could read - that was instrumental in causing the Protestant schism.
AnyaKimlin
Confuddled
Its called the adulterers bible.
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