Renaissance

Belief that the individual and human society were important.

• Humanism

• Renaissance

• Secularism

French word meaning rebirth

• Humanism

• Renaissance

• Secularism

Movement for religious reform that led to the founding of Christian Churches that reject the Pope’s authority

• Protestant Reformation

• 95 Theses

• Humanism

• Secularism

List of formal complaints against the Catholic Church

• Protestant Reformation

• 95 Theses

• Secularism

• Humanism

Key to spreading humanist ideas. Invented in 1450’s by Gutenberg & allowed books to be published quickly.

• Canterbury Tales

• Divine Comedy

• The Last Supper

• Printing Press

Greatest English writer of the era, wrote tragedies, comedies and historical plays.

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• William Shakespeare

• Dante Alighieri

• Johannes Gutenberg

Scientist, artist and inventor. He dissected corpses to learn anatomy & studied fossils to understand history.

• William Shakespeare

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Dante Alighieri

• Johannes Gutenberg

Poet of Florence and was active in politics as a young man. Famous for writing Divine Comedy.

• William Shakespeare

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Dante Alighieri

• Johannes Gutenberg

Invented printing press

• William Shakespeare

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Dante Alighieri

• Johannes Gutenberg