The Northern Renaissance. The Religious element was stronger than in Italy.

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The Northern Renaissance

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The Northern Renaissance

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The Northern Renaissance

The Religious element was

stronger than in Italy

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It was a blend of old and new

• Many Northern Renaissance paintings look medieval

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Other painters, such as the Brueghels, loved to paint the

peasant life

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Christian Humanists studied Hebrew and Greek, along

with Latin

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Technical inventiveness was important

• Gutenberg’s Printing Press—the 1450’s

• The Gutenberg Bible

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Mining

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Mathematics

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Astronomy

•Copernicus (1473-1543) begins the Scientific Revolution

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Cartographers (Map making)

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Medicine and the Occult

• Medicine begins to emerge• Many Alchemists are early chemists

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Legend of Faustus--

• A doctor who sold his soul in return for knowledge and power

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Human Powers can understand and control

Human Nature

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Mysticism—a unique religious outlook

Mysticism lay in the belief, or experience, that the individual souls could commune with god

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Mysticism emphasized the importance of the

individual soul, not dependent on the

ChurchThis planted the

seeds of the Reformation

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Other religious groups began to emerge in

Northern Europe• The Sisters and

Brothers of the Common Life were founded by Gerard Groote in 1374

• It was kind of like an early day Salvation Army

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Erasmus of Rotterdam

•Like Dante and Petrarch of Italy, is considered the great writer of the Northern Renaissance

•He criticized people, but never the doctrine of the Catholic Church

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•He knew Kings

•The Pope respected him

•He wrote books on everything from religion to manners

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Erasmus put his faith in education and reason

Some call him the father of the

enlightenment

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“Don't stand, titter, totter, first standing upon one Foot, and then upon another, nor playing with your Fingers, biting your Lip, scratching your Head, or picking your Ears: Let your Cloaths be put on tight and neat, that your whole Dress, Air, Motion and Habit, may bespeak a modest and bashful Temper.”

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The Northern Renaissance had

stronger links to the medieval world