EQs:

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• EQs
• What were the characteristics of the Northern
  Renaissance?
• Why were Gutenbergs improvements to printing
  so important?

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The Northern Renaissance

• Spread from Italy
• Cities grow after 100 Years War
• Flanders rich from trade and cloth industry
• English and French Kings sponsor arts
• Developed its own character
• Realism

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German Painters

• Albrecht Durer woodcuts and engravings
• Hans Holbein almost photographic portraits

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Flemish Painters

• Jan van Eyck pioneer of layered oil painting,
  subtle colors
• Pieter Brueghel the elder everyday peasant
  life

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Christian Humanism

• Starts with questioning the church and traditions
• Reform society
• Education
• School for both sexes

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Desiderius Erasmus

• The Praise of Folly
• Pokes fun at greedy merchants, heartsick
  lovers, quarrelsome scholars, pompous priests
• Study the Bible
• Christianity of the heart not rules and
  ceremonies

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Thomas More

• Utopia means no place
• Imaginary land with no greed, corruption or war
• Perfect place with no use for money

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Christine de Pizan

• French writer
• Short stories
• Biographies
• Military manuals
• Questions different treatment of boys and girls

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Elizabethan Age

• Queen Elizabeth I
• 1558-1603
• Highly educated
• Wrote poetry, music
• Spoke French, Italian, Latin and Greek

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William Shakespeare

• Performer, writer, part owner of Globe Theater
• Used classic writing for plots and inspiration
• About human nature
• Tragedies, comedies, histories

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Printing Press

• Chinese invent block printing and movable type
• Idea spreads to Europe in 13th century
• Easier for Europe

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Johann Gutenberg

• New technologies for faster, cheaper books
• Bibles
• Travel guides
• Medical manuals

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Renaissance Legacy Break With Focus on the
Church - Art

• Art reflects Greece and Rome
• More realistic
• Secular as well as religious art
• Writers use vernacular
• Individual achievement praised

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Renaissance Legacy Break With Focus on the
Church - Society

• More information available and cheaper
• Literacy and learning valued
• Growth in learning and discoveries
• Laws clearer
• Societal reforms
• Politics and church questioned

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• Quiz Question 1
• Compare and contrast the
• Northern Renaissance with
• the Italian Renaissance

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• Quiz Question 2
• Describe how the world
  would be different today if Gutenberg had
  not improved printing