the northern renaissance. the religious element was stronger than in italy

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