The Northern Renaissance
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| Christian humanism/ˈkrɪstʃn ˈhjuːmənɪzəm/ | A northern movement that joined classical learning with a wish to reform the Church. |
The same method, a different focus
- The Northern Renaissance retained a more religious focus, which resulted in more human-centred naturalism that considered individuals and everyday life appropriate objects of artistic representation.
- The CED's logic runs from the religious focus to the human-centred naturalism, which is worth reading carefully.
- A more religious art is here an art of ordinary people and ordinary rooms, not of classical gods.
The CED's logic runs from the Northern Renaissance's religious focus to...
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A more religious art is here an art of ordinary people and ordinary rooms.
Christian humanism
- Christian humanism 基督教人文主义, embodied in the writings of Erasmus, employed Renaissance learning in the service of religious reform.
- The CED's verb is employed — the philology of 1.2 is a tool, and here it is pointed at scripture and church practice.
- So the Northern Renaissance is not a weaker version of the Italian one; it is the same technique aimed at a different target.
Christian humanism ____ Renaissance learning in the service of religious reform.
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The philology of 1.2 is a tool, pointed here at scripture.
Why this matters for unit 2
- A scholar who can date a document and compare manuscripts can ask whether a church practice has the authority it claims.
- Erasmus produced a new edition of the Greek New Testament using exactly the methods of 1.2.
- So the Reformation of unit 2 has a scholarly precondition, and it is here.
Shared, changed, or the consequence?
Sort each feature of the Northern Renaissance.
Select all the things the two Renaissances shared.
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Civic political models are the Italian outcome specifically.
The Northern Renaissance is the same method with a different target, not a weaker version. Christian humanism employed Renaissance learning in the service of religious reform — the philology developed to edit Cicero was pointed at scripture, which is what makes unit 2 possible.
The Northern Renaissance was a weaker version of the Italian one.
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Same tools, different target — and the target made unit 2 possible.
Comparing the two Renaissances
- Shared: philological method, printing, classical learning, and an interest in the individual.
- Different: the Italian revival produced secular political models, the Northern one produced religious reform.
- Same tools, different objects — which is the comparison the objective is asking for.
Match each part of the objective to its content.
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Three verbs, three different answers.
Developed, maintained and changed
- The objective is how Renaissance ideas were developed, maintained and changed as the Renaissance spread to northern Europe.
- Developed: philology and printing carried north. Maintained: classical learning and individual focus.
- Changed: a religious rather than civic application, and an art of everyday life.
Erasmus compares Greek manuscripts of the New Testament and finds that a familiar Latin reading rests on a translation choice. He is doing what Italian humanists did with Roman poetry. The technique is identical; the consequences are not, because this text is the basis of an institution's authority.
The Northern Renaissance retained a more religious focus, which resulted in more human-centred naturalism treating individuals and everyday life as appropriate artistic subjects. Christian humanism, embodied in Erasmus, employed Renaissance learning in the service of religious reform — the same philological method as 1.2, pointed at scripture, which is the scholarly precondition for unit 2.