<span> the invention of the printing </span><span> itself and social changes in England I would say these two events contributed to the popularity of the novel and especially in the Renaissance when printing developed first (invented by Gutenberg in about 1440) and allowed for the widespread disseminatirialon of literature and when social change was going on with the transition from feudalism to capitalism and then again in the Industrial Revolution when sweeping social change took place in socialized production, for example. </span>
