The Northern Renaissance
Humanism humanism - interest in the classics 3 Main Beliefs: seek fulfillment in daily life each individual has dignity and worth ideal person participates in a wide variety of activities
Renaissance Man Term or nickname given to a person who participates in a wide variety of activities Eg: a student who plays on the football team, participates in Boy Scouts, and also plays the piano.
“Wherever your life ends, it is all there “Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some people have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.” - Michel de Montaigne
Spread of Ideas by the late 1400s, the Renaissance movement began to spread north into Europe (Northern Renaissance) How? war, trade, travel, printing press
France King Francis I hires many Italian artists and writers to visit France and teach their skills chateaux - French castle
Germany 1440s - Johannes Gutenberg creates a printing press used metal letters that could be used and reused to create words (moveable type)
Germany books could now be printed quickly = more books = more people reading/ learning first book printed was the Bible no more hand-copying!! ideas spread like wildfire!!
Spain Spanish Inquisition attempt by Spanish government to make all Spaniards Catholic thousands of people killed
England people in Renaissance England loved plays William Shakespeare was the most famous playwright in England late 1500s - early 1600s
William Shakespeare wrote comedies and tragedies liked to write about history stories from old England and Ancient Rome Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream