The Renaissance Spreads North
Ways It Spread North Through Trade By Tutors: 1485 Henry VII hires Italian scholars to have his children “raised renaissance” His son Henry VIII makes London a Renaissance center by 1550 By War: 1517 France invades Milan and brings home scholars like Leonardo Da Vinci
The Printing Press 1440 A man named Gutenberg invented an improved printing press that let him print books quickly and cheaply This produced enough cheap books so that ordinary people could afford them and thus spread literacy and learning. 1456 The Gutenberg Bible is printed, making it available to everyone.
The Northern Renaissance Flanders: Flemish Painters used the new oil paints to create a way of painting still used today Christian Humanists: applied Christian ideas to everyday things In Holland, Erasmus wrote “The Praise of Folly” a Satire and encouraged everyone to study the Bible
The English Renaissance Flourished during the rule of the Tudor Monarchs: Henry VIII, and Elizabeth Thomas More, a Christian Humanist wrote Utopia about the perfect society William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe wrote plays and poetry The modern play and movie have their roots in the theaters of Elizabethan London