Gutenberg vs Caxton: press the Word or peddle the story?
GUTENBERG vs WILLIAM CAXTON go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.
I gave the world the machine itself, cast every letter in metal, and printed the Bible so the sacred Word could multiply beyond any scribe's lifetime.
And I printed Chaucer in the common tongue so that a wool merchant's daughter could read for pleasure, not just for prayer.
Pleasure? I built the engine of a revolution while you translated romances by the fireside in Bruges.
Your engine was silent until someone chose what to feed it, Johannes; you made the press, but I taught a nation what to want from it.
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