Transcript The Renaisance - Hudson Falls Middle School

The Northern Renaissance
The European World
What is Christian Humanism?
 Renaissance
ideas influence the writers and philosophers
of northern Europe who adopted the ideal of humanism to
their more religious views of life
Writers Try to Reform Society
 Desiderius
 1509
Folly
Erasmus:
wrote The Praise of
book
poked fun at:
 greedy
merchants
 heartsick lovers
 quarrelsome scholars
 and pompous priests
 believed
in a Christianity of
the heart, not one of
ceremonies or rules
Writers Try to Reform Society
 Thomas
 1516
More:
wrote Utopia
an
imaginary land inhabited
by a peace-loving people
an ideal place
 in
Utopia -
greed
corruption
war
crime
had been weeded out
Writers Try to Reform Society
 Francois
 wrote
Rabelais:
a comic adventure
Gargantua and Pantagruel
in
vernacular French
 believed
that human beings
were basically good and
should live by their instincts
rather than religious rules
Writers Try to Reform Society
 William
Shakespeare:
 revealed
the souls of men
and women through scenes
of dramatic conflict
 tragedies:
Macbeth
King
Lear
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet,
 comedies:
A
Midsummer Night’s
Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Gutenberg Invents the Printing Press
a
craftsman from Mainz,
Germany
Gutenberg Invents the Printing Press
a
craftsman from Mainz,
Germany
 reinvented movable type
around 1440
Gutenberg Invents the Printing Press
a
craftsman from Mainz,
Germany
 reinvented movable type
around 1440
 printed a complete Bible
in 1455
1. printers could
produce hundreds
of copies
4. writing in
vernacular languages
increased
6. people began to
interpret the Bible
for themselves =
more criticism of
Church
2. books were
cheap enough that
many people could
buy them
Printing
Spreads
Learning
3. availability of
books encouraged
people to learn to
read = rise in
literacy
5. Bible printed in
vernacular = more
people could read
it
7. produced
religious works,
travel guides and
medical manuals