The Renaissance in the North
PP 56-59
Key Terms, People and Places
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Johan Gutenberg
Albrecht Durer
Engraving
vernacular
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Erasmus
Thomas More
Utopian
Shakespeare
Medieval Bible
Johan Gutenberg
• Invented the printing press 1455
• Able to mass produce books
• Gutenberg Bible
Printing Press
Checkpoint
• What was the major impact of the Printing
Press?
Northern Renaissance
• Began in Netherlands
• Spread through trade,
travel
• Jan Van Eyck
• Peter Bruegel
• Peter Paul Reubens
• Religious upheaval
• Realism
• Daily life
Jan Van Eyck
Peter Bruegel
Peter Paul Reubens
“Leonardo of the North”
• Albrecht Durer
• German
• Traveled to Italy to learn
about humanities
• Applied Techniques to
engraving
– This was done by carving
patterns on a metal plate
with acid and using it to
create prints
Albrecht Durer
Checkpoint
• What themes did Northern Renaissance artist
embrace?
Northern Humanist Writers
• Desiderius Erasmus
– Dutch Priest
– Used his
Knowledge to
produce a Greek
Bible
– Called for a
translation of the
bible to vernacular
Northern Humanist Writers
• Sir Thomas More
– English Humanist
– Wrote Utopia about
ideal society where
men and women are
equal live in peace
and harmony
– All work and
contribute and are
educated
Northern Humanist Writers
• Francois Rabelais
– French Humanist
– Wrote comical
Gargantua and
Pantagruel
– Discussed comic
travels through
Europe but it actually
offered opinions
about religions
Northern Humanist Writers
• William Shakespeare
– English poet and playwrite
– Between 1590 and 1613
wrote 37 plays
– Performed at the Globe
Theater
– Burnt down during the
play Henry the VII from a
cannon shot on stage
Globe Theater
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
“To be or not to be”
Julius Caesar
“Beware the
Ides of March”
“Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou
Romeo?”
“To be or not to be”
“Et tu, brute”
Checkpoint
• What Renaissance ideas did Shakespeare
address?