LESSON 5.9 How did the Renaissance spread?
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this lesson you should be able to describe the spread of Renaissance culture to Northern Europe and beyond.
Tune in Advancements in technology, such as the printing press in SOURCE1 , allowed Renaissance culture to spread throughout Europe.
SOURCE1 A modern artist’s impression of printers producing books on a fifteenth-century printing press
A Metal letters, numbers and symbols called ‘type’ were arranged and rearranged side by side in rows held together by a frame to create each page of print. B A frame of type was then fixed onto the press and the surface of the type was covered with ink. C A press, adapted from a wine press for squashing grapes, was pulled down to press sheets of paper against the ink-covered type in the frame. D The press was raised and the printed pages were removed. The complete sets of pages were bound together to make a copy of abook. Examine SOURCE1 and predict what is happening in the image. Working in pairs, identify one modern technological device. Discuss how this device is used today to spread culture across the world. 5.9.1 A widening movement From about 1450, the Renaissance spread from Italy to Europe. Historians call this movement the Northern Renaissance. The ideas of the Renaissance were spread in several ways including via trade, the importation of art, Italian artists and architects moving to northern Europe for employment, northern European students attending Italian universities, and northern European writers and scholars who were influenced by Italian Humanism. But the most important reason for the spread of Renaissance ideas was the growing availability of printed books.
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