honors world history- northern renaissance

1. Northern Renaissance
Ch. 1 Sec. 2

2. Renaissance Spreads
• 100 Yr. war ends in 1453
and cities grow rapidly
• Begins in Flanders
• War/Wealthy rulers bring
in Italians
• More Christian Themed
• More focused on realism
–Flemish Painters
• Printing Press

3. NORTHERN HUMANISM
• Focused on Christianity more than
Classics
• Education was the focus
• Desiderius Erasmus (Holland)
–The Praise of Folly (1509)
–Criticized church leaders’ exorbitance
• Thomas More (England)
–Utopia (1516)
–Criticized greed, corruption, and War
Erasmus- Durer

4. Erasmus
“The Praise of Folly”
“Scarce any kind of men live more (devoted
to pleasure) or with less trouble….To work
miracles is….not in fashion now; to
interpret the Scripture, (too bookish); to
pray, a sign one has little else to do…and
lastly, to die, uncouth; and to be stretched
on a cross, infamous.”

5. Shakespeare
• Lived in Elizabethan England
• Performed at the Globe theatre
• Utilized the classics and focused on
human flaws and emotions

6. Shakespeare
• Lived in Elizabethan England
• Performed at the Globe theatre
• Utilized the classics and focused on
human flaws and emotions