Literature in the other languages of Britain The most important work of literature surviving from the Middle Cornish period is "An Ordinale Kernewek" ("The Cornish Ordinalia"), a 9000-line religious drama composed around the year 1400. Three plays in Cornish known as the Ordinalia have survived from this period. The spread of printing affected the transmission of literature across Britain and Ireland. The first book printed in English, William Caxton's own translation of "Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye", was printed abroad in 1473, to be followed by the establishment of the first printing press in England in 1474. The establishment of a printing press in Scotland under
Belgrade printing house Belgrade printing house The Belgrade printing house was a printing house established by count () Radiša Dmitrović in Belgrade, Ottoman Serbia (today the capital of Serbia). It was the first printing house in Belgrade. After Dmitrović's death, the printing house was taken over by Trojan Gundulić, who organized publishing of the first and only book of this printing house, the Gospel, printed and edited in 1552 by Hieromonk Mardarije. Count Radiša Dmitrović, a Serb nobleman and native of Herzegovina, bought the printing press and types and employed Hieromonk Mardarije as editor and printer. Some earlier sources speculated that the Belgrade