The people of this period who celebrated life through scientific inquiry, intellectual pursuits, and the arts are known as

a. printers.

b. Catholics.

c. humanists.

d. Elizabethans.

The people of this period who celebrated life through scientific inquiry, intellectual pursuits and the arts are known as humanists. The correct option among all the options given in the question is option "c". The people of this period are connected with the renaissance era. This was the era when the thinking of the individuals started changing.