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CHAPTER
17
GUIDED READING
The Northern Renaissance
Section 2
A. Clarifying As you read about the ways that northern Europeans adapted the
ideas of the Renaissance, take notes to answer each question.
1. What factors led to the beginning of the Renaissance in northern Europe?
___________ began to recover from the _________ the Hundred Years' War ________
cities grew rapidly, city merchants became ____________ enough to sponsor artists.
2. How did the invention of the printing press help spread learning and Renaissance ideas?
_________ were cheap so many people could buy them; books were written in the
_______________ for people who had not had classical educations; because books
were more readily _______________ more people learned to read.
B. Drawing Conclusions Describe briefly how each of the following showed
Renaissance influences in his work.
3. Albrecht Dürer
4. Jan van Eyck
6. Desiderius Erasmus
7. Thomas More
8. William Shakespeare
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5. Pieter Bruegel the Elder