Humanism and The Printing Press

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Humanism and The Printing Press

• Unit 3, SSWH 9 c and g

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Humanism

• Study of classical texts, an intellectual
  movement that focused on human potential
  achievements
• Studied them to understand ancient Greek values
• Influenced artists and architects to carry on
  classical traditions

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Continued

• Popularized the study of subjects history,
  literature, and philosophy
• Examined traditional teachings of the church

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Petrarch

• Father of Renaissance humanism
• Great poet wrote both in Italian and Latin

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Dante

• Wrote using vernacular (wrote in everyday local
  language) and about secular (worldly) things
• Famous wrote The Divine
  Comedy in Italian

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Erasmus Christian Humanist

• Said society should be reformed
  through education (women, boys, and girls)
• Famous wrote The Praise of Folly poked fun at
  the greedy merchants, heartsick lovers,
  quarreling scholars, pompous priests
• To Improve society, all people should study the
  Bible

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Gutenberg The Printing Press

• Chinese invented block moveable type
• Block printed items reached Europe in the 1200s
• 1440, Johann Gutenberg developed a printing press
• Process produced books cheaply quickly

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Continued

• First complete book printed
  Gutenberg Bible in 1455
• Printing press allowed books to be made cheap
  it increase the amount of available knowledge in
  society
• Spreading ideas quickly (people began to
  challenge established institutions more)