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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Susie Nash’s Northern Renaissance Art is an affordable and decent introduction to the subject.
- The Gutenberg Revolution by John Man
- Peter Ackroyd’s Life of Thomas More is highly regarded and explores the late medieval context of More’s life well.
- Thomas More’s Utopia
- Roland Bainton’s Erasmus of Christendom is very readable and sympathetic to its subject.
- Desiderius Erasmus’s The Praise of Folly
- Desiderius Erasmus’s Julius Exclusus
Northern Renaissance – Quiz
- The Northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance primarily in that it focused less on the ________________ past and focused more on _____________ themes.
- The greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance was ________________.
- Identify at least two major developments resulting from the invention of the movable-metal-type printing press.
- _______________ was an early advocate of the study of the Hebrew language.
- St. Thomas More was a close friend of King ___________, who nevertheless later had More executed.
- Erasmus’s moralist view of the Christian religion is often referred to as the “____________________.”
- Explain how Erasmus’s Greek-Latin translation of the New Testament caused controversy.
- classical or Greco-Roman; Christian
- Albrecht Dürer
- greater availability (and lower price) of written works; increased literacy
- Johann Reuchlin
- Henry VIII
- philosophy of Christ
- different translations of Greek terms had the potential to affect Church doctrine