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I. The Renaissance
-means “rebirth”
-renewed interest in Greek & Roman culture
-secular time
A. New Ideas and Art
1) humanism= believed that the individual & human society were important
2)literature= writers began writing in vernacular- more people were reading their work
-Dante= The Divine Comedy
-Chaucer- The Canterbury Tales
3.) Printing Press= changed the world
-Johannes Guttenberg= 1450’s invented printing press
-this made books more easily available
-more people learned to read
-Gutenberg Bible= 1st book printed
4) Leonardo da Vinci= scientist, inventor, engineer, & painter
-painted the Mona Lisa & The Last Supper
-dissected corpses to study anatomy
5) Michelangelo= painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
-sculpted the statue of David & Moses
6) Raphael= Renaissance painter
-painted in churches all over Italy
B) The Reformation=
- During the Middle Ages the Catholic Church became very powerful
-needed money so they began selling indulgences
-indulgences were forgiveness for sins -this outraged many people including Martin
Luther
Martin Luther= responded to this practice w/ his 95 theses & nailed them to the door of the church
-he wanted to reform the church -he wanted people to rely on the Bible & not
priests -this began the Protestant Reformation & his
followers were the 1st denomination of Protestants: Lutherans