Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 12, Lesson 4: Renaissance in Northern Europe (pp. 329-333)
I. The Spread of Ideas
B. Italian businessmen traveling throughout Europe carried Renaissance ideas with them.
C. Renaissance ideas were also spread in print.
D. Monarchs became interested in learning.
II. Ideas and Ideals
B. Northern humanists combined studies of ancient Greece and Rome with Bible studies. Some now came to question interpretations that the church had put on the Bible.
III. Achievements
B. Realism was important to the humanist writers of northern Europe.
C. The northern Renaissance also made great advances in medicine.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. Renaissance ideas began to spread to northern Europe in the late 1400s.
A. Northern feudalism was stronger than southern, and northern nobles and royalty became the patrician families, not wealthy businessmen.
A. Many northern artists expressed religious themes in their work.
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