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The Renaissance

all were sources of income for composers. Literature Printing press: William Caxton was the person who introduced printing in England. Before that, the books were written out in longhand, what meant a very slow jog. With the printing , it was possible to produce books in large numbers and in a short amoun of time. That way, more people could learn to read and write. The oral tradition began to loose power both in literature and in the Church affairs. Thomas More(1480-1535) ­ One of the gratest of all English humanists mainly for the book Utopia, written in Latin, in which were about an imaginary island where everything was perfect. Utopia means "nowhere" in Greek. Thomas new clearly that such an island could never exist. This dream of a place where happiness reigns and sorrow is banished is the most persistent of human fantasies and became a recurrent theme in many other british literature works. He was beheaded in 1535 for refusing to support his king's (henry viii) decision to