Chapter 3: The Northern Renaissance

Question 1

printing press

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Developed by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany; quickly spread through Western Europe, allowing rapid spread of knowledge

Question 2

Humanism

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Referred to as Christian humanism; attempted to unite classical learning with Christianity, balancing secular and otherworldly matters.

Question 3

Brethren of the Common Life

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Dutch Christian humanist group; devoted to classical learning and spiritual matters

Question 4

Thomas a Kempis

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Wrote The Imitation of Christ

Question 5

Desiderius Erasmus

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“Prince of the Humanists”; classical scholar and cleric; wrote Adages and Praise of Folly (satire); studied Bible using classical learning to clarify; opposed Protestantism

Question 6

Jan van Eyck

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Great oil painter from Belgium; painted Arnolfini Wedding; excellent perspective and detail

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Hieronymus Bosch

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Flemish painter; painted nightmarish fantasy worlds; Garden of Earthly Delight

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Pieter Brueghel

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Flemish painter; known for genre works, such as Peasant Wedding

Question 9

Albrecht Durer

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German artist; did woodcuts and engravings; also painted

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Matthias Grunewald

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German painter of religious works, esp. crucifixion scenes; Isenheim altarpiece

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Hans Holbein the Younger

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Portrait painter

Question 12

Rabelais

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French writer of satires Gargantua and Pantagruel

Question 13

Montaigne

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French essayist; religious tolerance

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Wrote Canterbury Tales; humanist and secular; revealed faults of clergy

Question 15

John Colet

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Brought humanism and classical languages into religious matters in England

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Thomas More

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Great English humanist; wrote Utopia, criticizing realities of his society

Question 17

Edmund Spenser

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Leading Elizabethan poet; wrote Faerie Queen

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Christopher Marlowe

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Elizabethan playwright; wrote Tamburlaine the Great, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta

Question 19

Shakespeare

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wrote lots of plays; human experience

Question 20

Ben Jonson

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Elizabethan poet/dramatist; wrote Volpone

Question 21

Cervantes

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Wrote Don Quixote de la Mancha, satire of Medieval chivalry

Question 22

Felix Lope de Vega

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Prolific Spanish playwright

Question 23

El Greco

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Studied under Titian; depicted distorted figures