The Northern Renaissance/The Printing Press

Northern Renaissance

More religious framework for thought in Germany and France and other places outside Italy, considered ordinary objects and people as appropriate subjects for art

Peter Breughel the Elder

Painted Netherlandish Proverbs, depicting regular people going about their business and peasants going through proverbs

Rembrandt

Painted ordinary life, such as Slaughtered Ox

Christian Humanism

The synthesis of humanistic thought with Christian Traditions in places like France and the Low Countries, which emphasized returning to a simpler Christianity without the complex Church Hierarchy

Erasmus

Christian Humanist who wrote In Praise of Folly, satire which undermined political and social institutions and criticized corrupt aspects of religious hierarchies

Philosophy of Christ

Christian Humanist Philosophy which emphasized morality and spirituality on the individual level

Johannes Gutenberg

Created the Printing Press with Moveable Type with Chinese paper-making methods

Effects of the Printing Press

Ideas spread rapidly because of printing, more discussion of literature, rising literacy rates, and increasing demand of vernacular literature