How Culture influences Literature

Culture is a term that can be described in several unique ways. Authors, such as Boccaccio, described culture through his writings and way of literature. Literature is a part of culture that has developed over centuries of authors and writings. Many aspects can affect literature and change the development of it. Some of these influencing factors are the development of technology, religion, and philosophy. All three of these are major advances in literature and influenced lives then, and continue to influence our lives even today. Literature is always changing, and will never stop. Literature is the key source for information and communication in the world; without it civilization would fall apart and cease to exist. Some say culture and literature go hand-in-hand, however, literature can be the prime example of what defines culture. Technology has changed exponentially over the past centuries, and because of that change literature has followed in due course.
One major aspect that affected Renaissance literature was the development of technology. Technology had quite a few influences upon it by different cultures, two of those cultures were European and Asian. Thus, technology had a huge impact on Renaissance literature by giving advancements and setting forth new ideas. Technology really set off in Italy during the Renaissance, and created productivity that was never seen before. The two main factors involving technology that changed the ways of literature were the printing press and the new paper content. The Printing press was a machine that automatically printed out writings that had already been written. This was a tremendous breakthrough as it replaced copyists. A copyist is a person who spent all their time rewriting a book word for word. Copyists were not only time consuming and expensive, they were also known to make errors. Another problem with the copyist system is people couldn’t always read the copier's handwriting. The Printing Press eliminated