Northern Renaissance

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Northern Renaissance
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Aspects of the Northern Renaissance

• Christian humanism
• Merging of emphasis on humans w/ Christian focus
• Painted on small scale
• Attention to detail used to create realistic
  pictures
• (not perspective)
• Focused on reality or Christianity- not mythology
• 2 main artists
• Jan Van Eyck (known for tiny detail)
• Albrecht Durer (merged detail and perspective)

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Renaissance Society

• 3 main levels to society
• Clergy
• Nobles
• Townspeople (bourgeoisie)/peasants
• Marriages still arranged for all
• Italian Renaissance- ideas spread north through
  TRADE
• Also centered in large cities
• Printing Press
• Invented by Johannes Gutenberg
• printing easier, cheaper, more people afford
  books, more people learning to read led to more
  education

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Gutenberg and the Printing Press
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Van Eyck
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Durer
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REVIEW- Vernacular Literature

• Importance of vernacular
• language of a specific area
• writing in vernacular instead of Latin
• How would this effect the churchs influence on
  society?
• Helped to codify languages
• Main writers
• Dante The Divine Comedy in Italian
• Chaucer and Shakespeare The Canterbury Tales in
  English
• Shakespeare- late Renaissance

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Dante Inferno/Divine Comedy

• About the souls journey to salvation
• 3 major sections
• Hell
• Purgatory
• Heaven

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Chaucer Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales about pilgrims going to tomb of
Thomas a Becket in Canterbury On the way, they
tell each other stories to pass the time
Chaucer- A Knight's Tale Chaucer's Gift of Tales
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ShakespeareOh, Shakespeare...
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William Shakespeare

• The time period.....
• Possibly best playwright ever WHY?
• Themes of humanity
• Moved away from morality plays of Middle Ages
• Best known plays
• Macbeth (Man and his wife craving power)
• Hamlet (Prince seeing the ghost of his father)
• Romeo and Juliet (young forbidden love story)
• Why do we keep making Romeo and Juliet into film?
• Why do you love or hate Shakespeare?

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Additional work

• Not assigned in Spring 2015

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Adaptations of Shakespeare

• Shes the Man
• -Twelfth Night
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• The Taming of the Shrew
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• ASSIGNMENT Using any of the time periods we have
  studied to this point in this course, write an
  adaptation of one of Shakespeares famous plays
  showing real-life issues of humanity.
• Example write a Romeo and Juliet story using
  a patrician and plebeian in ancient Rome, or
  between a Spartan and Athenian, etc.
• Need list of Characters,
• summary of scenes/story/plot,
• script from one of the scenes.
• -Extra
  Credit for acting out the scene

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Literature from the Renaissance

• Read excerpts from Shakespeare and Petrarch, p.
  448 in your textbook.
• Answer the questions in your notes relating to
  the excerpts.
• Be prepared to discuss!
• Read excerpt from The Canterbury Tales by
  Geoffrey Chaucer, p. R63.
• Answer the questions in your notes relating to
  the excerpts.
• Be prepared to discuss!