the northern renaissance. the religious element was stronger than in italy
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The Northern Renaissance
The Northern Renaissance
The Religious element was
stronger than in Italy
It was a blend of old and new
• Many Northern Renaissance paintings look medieval
Other painters, such as the Brueghels, loved to paint the
peasant life
Christian Humanists studied Hebrew and Greek, along
with Latin
Technical inventiveness was important
• Gutenberg’s Printing Press—the 1450’s
• The Gutenberg Bible
Mining
Mathematics
Astronomy
•Copernicus (1473-1543) begins the Scientific Revolution
Cartographers (Map making)
Medicine and the Occult
• Medicine begins to emerge• Many Alchemists are early chemists
Legend of Faustus--
• A doctor who sold his soul in return for knowledge and power
Human Powers can understand and control
Human Nature
Mysticism—a unique religious outlook
Mysticism lay in the belief, or experience, that the individual souls could commune with god
Mysticism emphasized the importance of the
individual soul, not dependent on the
ChurchThis planted the
seeds of the Reformation
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
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
•He knew Kings
•The Pope respected him
•He wrote books on everything from religion to manners
Erasmus put his faith in education and reason
Some call him the father of the
enlightenment
“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.”
The Northern Renaissance had
stronger links to the medieval world