Northern Renaissance

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Northern Renaissance

• 17.2

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Books, Scripture, and Letters

• Books and Writings were published and distributed
  a lot faster with the invention of the movable
  type
• Johannes Gutenberg - printed a complete edition
  of the Bible using movable type
• Gutenberg Bible

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French Renaissance

• French architects mixed Gothic towers and windows
  with classical Italian arches to create castles -
  A.K.A. Chateaux
• Francois Rabelais - Frances most popular author -
  rejected afterlife - wrote on law, medicine,
  politics, theology, botany, and navigation

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Northern Europe

• gt Desiderius Erasmus - wrote In Praise of Folly -
  Spoke out against Renaissance popes
• - Claimed they were so corrupt they dont even
  practice true Christianity
• gt Pieter Brueghel - used oil painting to get
  rich colors - painted pictures of his homeland

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English Renaissance

• gt William Shakespeare - wrote dramatic English
  plays during the Renaissance
• - Wrote Midsummer Night Dream, Othello, Macbeth,
  Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet

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William Shakespeare (1min)