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The Renaissance: New Directions. Renaissance spread across Europe Southern Renaissance (Italy) focused on classical antiquity with its worldly values Northern Renaissance focused on renewed Christianity and biblical studies. Renaissance was an elite movement far removed from the masses.
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Renaissance spread across Europe • Southern Renaissance (Italy) focused on classical antiquity with its worldly values • Northern Renaissance focused on renewed Christianity and biblical studies. • Renaissance was an elite movement far removed from the masses
North vs. South • Both focused on the individual • Northernfocused on individual in a religious or communal setting; Focused on the hardships of life • Southernstressed the individual in secular, commercial, and urban scenes • THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS!
Ideas with the Renaissance • Individualism • Worldliness • Learning • Antiquity • Reform
Did the five ideas come from the Middle Ages? • Individualism? • Sense of individualism in the personal nature of Middle Agesfeudal contracts • Worldliness? • Middle class illustrated worldliness and materialism • Learning? • Contributed to the scholastic method and universities • Antiquity? • Roman law revived; Aristotle approach to knowledge • Reform? • St. Francis of Assissi and St. Dominic led movements of reform
Do the five ideas still exist today? • Individualism? • Worldliness? • Learning? • Antiquity? • Reform?