The Renaissance: The North

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The Renaissance The North
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Northern Humanism

• Sir Thomas More
• Utopia
• Erasmus
• Praise of Folly
• No Protestant
• historical Christ

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The National Renaissance Literatures

• Contemporary human beings
• Inspired by pagan classics
• vernacular
• Christopher Marlowe
• William Shakespeare
• Secular individual
• Master of own fate
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Accurate and unbiased observation
• Ben Johnson
• Last great Elizabethan writer
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Don Quixote
• Lope de Vega
• More plays than any other playwright

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Art, Architecture, and Music

• Jan Van Eyck
• Oil as a medium
• Albert Durer
• Woodcuts and engravings
• Hans Holbein
• Portrait paintings
• The Netherlands as music capital

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Printing with Movable Type

• Wooden blocks from China
• Tedious, costly, limited
• Paper from China
• Mass production
• Moveable type
• Johannes Gutenberg
• Printing press ? Bible (1456)

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Significance of the Renaissance in History

1. God-centered to human centered
2. Versatility
3. Individualism
4. Materialism
5. Rebirth of pagan antiquity
6. Foundations of science