After listening to the performance, Georgiana went to find Archbishop Roquelaure under a priest's guidance. He was not in his office today, but in the sacristy, and Georgiana waited outside the door.
The archbishop was polishing a stand used to display the Bible during Mass. The earliest printed works Gutenberg sold in Europe were unfinished products, requiring buyers to bind them into books themselves. This was not because he was lazy.
The Gutenberg Bible was not only several times larger than the handwritten manuscripts popular at the time, but also used enlarged, bold type so that people farther away could see it clearly. To achieve this, he had to use new type molds.
Handwritten texts of that era used Gothic type. In some places, the strokes were very narrow and broke easily. Nor could parchment continue to be used for printing: not only did the ink dry poorly, it was also especially heavy. A printed Bible would likely weigh seventy-five kilograms, about as much as an adult man.
Gutenberg succeeded only after a great many experiments. For this, he took on loans enough to buy several houses in Mainz.
At the time, the Holy Roman Emperor was Sigismund. He had served as Elector of Brandenburg, King of Germany, King of Bohemia, King of Hungary, and King of Poland. He was the second son of Charles IV, who had issued the Golden Bull, and the last emperor of the Luxembourg dynasty. It was he who granted the Margraviate and Electorate of Brandenburg to the House of Hohenzollern.
Because he died without a male heir, the throne passed to his son-in-law, Albert II of Habsburg. From then on, the crown of the Holy Roman Empire remained in the hands of the Habsburg dynasty.
During his reign, he had organized the Crusades and