Renaissance

A movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• Arts

• Patronage

Sir Thomas More wrote the work

• Paradise Lost

• Gulliver's Travels

• The Canterbury Tales

• Utopia

Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton were known for contributing what to the Renaissance?

• New concepts on the universe and science

• New trade routes and goods

• Books printed in local vernaculars

• New concepts on religion

 The early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar.  One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome.

• Shakespeare

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Petrarch

Which of the following people was an artist, scientist, inventor, and philosopher?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Shakespeare

• Miguel de Cervantes

• Dante Aligheri

How did Renaissance writers like Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare influence later writers?

• by writing in Latin

• by creating the first newspapers

• by writing the Bible

• by writing in the common lanugage

Art and literature of the Renaissance was influenced by ancient

• Anglo-Saxon

• Greek and Latin

• Anglo-Norman

• Old English

The English humanist and writer who wrote Utopia - a book that was about an ideal society where everyone was equal and free

• Baldassare Castiglione

• William Shakespeare

• Pieter Brueghel

• Thomas More

Humanism focused on achievements in all of the following except what?

• Art

• Education

• Math

• Literature

Advantages of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press include all of the following EXCEPT:

• Cheaper book prices

• More books written in vernacular - language of the people

• Increase in church power

• Rapid spread of knowledge and ideas