The Northern Renaissance (video)

• The Renaissance spread from Italy, the place of its birth, to the rest of the European continent
• By 1500, there were around 1,000 printers scattered throughout Europe, pumping out printed material by the metric butt load (about 40,000 different titles)
• Northern Renaissance


  The Renaissance as it spread to various parts of Europe, with the main ideas remaining intact but the emphases beginning to change
• Northern Renaissance


  • Thinkers retained a more religious, Christian framework for thought
  • Art was more human-centered, depicting ordinary objects and people as appropriate subjects
• Northern Renaissance art


  • Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • Slaughtered Ox by Rembrandt
  • The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt
  • The Procession to Calvary by Hieronymus Bosch
• Christian humanism


  The blending of Christianity and humanism, where northern Renaissance thinkers sought to synthesize humanistic thought with Christian tradition
• Christian humanism


  • Sought to recover an ancient, simpler version of Christianity
  • Believed education in the classics and the Bible was the first step in lasting societal reform
  • Emphasized individual morality and spirituality over secular principles
• Erasmus


  A prominent Christian humanist, whose book "In Praise of Folly" was a satire that criticized corrupt aspects of the religious hierarchy
• Christian humanism led to an impulse for reform in the northern Renaissance