Northern renaissance Quiz Prep

Dutch religious scholar who called for the translation of the Bible into the vernacular

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus

English humanist who described an ideal society in Utopia

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus

the leading English language poet and playwright of the Renaissance

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus

printer who invented a printing press with movable type

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus

German artist who spread Renaissance ideas in northern Europe

• Gutenberg

• Shakespeare

• Albrecht Durer

• Thomas More

• Erasmus

a technique in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate using acid; the plate is then used to make prints

• printing press

• vernacular

• prosperous

• engraving

the everyday spoken language of the common people

• printing press

• vernacular

• prosperous

• engraving

Machine for printing text or pictures from plates

• printing press

• vernacular

• prosperous

• engraving

Successful, wealthy

• printing press

• vernacular

• prosperous

• engraving

The printing revolution meant that

• the arts lost many patrons.

• the Bible could be read for the first time.

• an end to illiteracy in Europe.

• exposed educated readers to new ideas and places.