The Northern Renaissance

1. The Northern Renaissance

2. The Northern Renaissance The Religious element was stronger than in Italy

3. It was a blend of old and new Many Northern Renaissance paintings look medieval

7. Other painters, such as the Brueghels, loved to paint the peasant life

10. Christian Humanists studied Hebrew and Greek, along with Latin

11. Technical inventiveness was important Gutenberg’s Printing Press—the 1450’s The Gutenberg Bible

16. Mining

17. Mathematics

18. Astronomy Copernicus (1473-1543) begins the Scientific Revolution

20. Cartographers (Map making)

21. Medicine and the Occult Medicine begins to emerge Many Alchemists are early chemists

24. Legend of Faustus-- A doctor who sold his soul in return for knowledge and power

25. Human Powers can understand and control Human Nature

26. Mysticism—a unique religious outlook Mysticism lay in the belief, or experience, that the individual souls could commune with god

27. Mysticism emphasized the importance of the individual soul, not dependent on the Church This planted the seeds of the Reformation

28. 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

30. 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

31. He knew Kings The Pope respected him He wrote books on everything from religion to manners

32. Erasmus put his faith in education and reason Some call him the father of the enlightenment

34. The Northern Renaissance had stronger links to the medieval world