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Northern Renaissance
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Johann Gutenberg | Invented the printing press and printed the first complete Christian Bible. |
| Albrecht Dürer | A very influential artist that helped spread Renaissance ideas to the rest of Europe. Sometimes referred to as "Leonardo of the North" |
| Erasmus | A scholar and humanist who translated the Christian Bible to Greek and spread Renaissance humanism to a wider public. |
| Thomas More | A friend of Erasmus who describes an ideal society in which men and women live in peace, all are educated, and justice is used to end crime rather than the criminal. |
| Shakespeare | A very intelligent play writer and poet. |
| Flanders | A region which spread the Renaissance to other countries and thrived in trade. (Contains northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.) |
| Engraving | An artistic method in which the artist uses an engraved metal plate to make prints. Introduced by Dürer. |
| Vernacular | The everyday language of ordinary people. |
| Utopian | Any ideal society often with the implication that the society is ultimately impractical. |