Renaissance

• Advances during the Renaissance

  • Anatomy
  • Disease theory
  • Artistic representations of the human body
• The Renaissance marked a transitional period that stimulated advances across many disciplines including medicine through technological, population, commercial, intellectual, and cross-cultural developments
• Professions of the emerging middle class

  • Banking
  • Trade
  • Craftsmanship
• Renaissance

  Means 'rebirth', referred to a period between the 14th-17th centuries where European scholars and artists studied classical influences and prioritized humanism
• Printing press


  • Invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1440s, allowed mass-production of books using movable type, making knowledge more widely accessible
• Humanist questioning of religious orthodoxy

  Gradually weakened the Catholic Church's domination over education and civic life, allowing new scientific ideas to spread more readily
• Producing more accurate anatomical drawings

  Dissecting human cadavers rather than relying on ancient texts alone
• Population growth after the decline of plague epidemics

  Created new commercial demand and spurred economic expansion