Renaissance Spreads North

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Renaissance Spreads North

• Chapter 1.2

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I. Northern Renaissance Begins

• Population of Northern Europe begins to recover
• - effects of plague fade
• Cities grew rapidly
• French and English Monarchs begin sponsoring the
  arts
• Renaissance ideas spread out of Italy and through
  the rest of Europe

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1. What encouraged the spread of those ideas?

• War in Italy started by French King
• Italian artists went north for safety

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2. German Painters

• Albrecht Durer studied in Italy

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3. Flanders wealthy were attracted to
individualism and worldly pleasures

• Jan Van Eyck realist painter

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II. Northern Writers

• Humanism but with a Religious emphasis. Also
  known as Christian Humanism
• 1. Erasmus Believed in Christianity of the
  heart
• Thomas More wrote Utopia
• William Shakespeare England
• Had command of English language
• Portrayed dramatic human characters

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C. Elizabethan Age

• Another name for the Renaissance in England
• Named after Queen Elizabeth
• Well-educated. Spoke many languages
• Wrote poetry

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III. Printing Spreads Ideas

• A. Gutenberg invents printing press
• 1440 Reinvented moveable type
• 1455 Printed complete bible
• HELPS SPREAD IDEAS BY
• Books could be produced quickly
• Cheap enough for people to buy
• Travel and medicine books
• Rise in literacy
• Increase in writing in Vernacular

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VERNACULAR -

• Native language for the people of that
  country/area Not Latin or Greek