AP European History
Hicks
8/26-8/30
The Northern Renaissance
The following packet includes all assignments for the week of 8/26 – 8/30
8/26- Christian Humanism
8/27- Northern Renaissance Art
8/28-Life during the Renaissance
8/29- Unit 1 Study Day
8/30- Packet due, Unit 1 (Italian and Northern Renaissance) Test
Renaissance Checklist
1. _____ID Terms
2.Important People
3. _____Guided Reading, The Northern Renaissance (p.338-339)
-Complete Sentences
4. _____Guided Reading, Northern Renaissance Humanism and Art (p.340-341)
-Complete Sentences
5._____Summary Questions
-Paragraph response to each question
ID Terms13 x2=26
Important People12x2=24
Guided Reading5x3=15
Summary Questions8x5=40
Total=105
ID Terms
Northern HumanismPrinting Press
In Praise of FollyReuchlin Affair
Handbook of the Christian KnightUtopia
Christian HumanismGargantua and Pantagruel
quixoticDon Quixote
Flemish Stylesmadrigal
Artemesia
Important People
Sir Thomas MoreUlrich von Hutten
Rudolf AgricolFrancisco Jimenez de Cisneros
Jan Van EyckMiguel de CervantesJacques Lefevred’Estables William Shakespeare
Albrecht DuererChristine de Pisan
Hans Holbein the YoungerPeter Brueghel, the Elder
Guided Reading
Answers can be found in Kagan, answer each in complete sentences
The Northern Renaissance (p.338-339)
1. In what ways did Northern Renaissance humanism differ from the humanism of the Italian Renaissance?
2. How did the invention of the printing with movable type affect European society?
Northern Renaissance Humanism and Art (p.340-341)
1. In what ways did Erasmus challenge commonly held religious beliefs of the time?
2. In what ways did the introduction of humanism in England, France, and Germany prepare the way for Protestant religious reforms in those nation-states?
3. How did Northern Christian humanism assist Spain in maintaining a strict Catholic society throughout the Protestant Reformation?
Summary Questions
Answer each question in at least a paragraph. Not all answers can be found in book, you will need to use notes, reading, and discussion to help answer questions.
- How do you account for the fact that people in northern Europe seemed to be more concerned about daily devotion and the state of their relationship with God than those in the south?
- What were the characteristics of the art of the Northern Renaissance? How did it reflect the societies of Northern Europe?
- How was the Northern Renaissance different from that in Renaissance Italy?
- What is meant by the term "Christian humanism"?
- Explain the impact of the printing press on Northern European art and literature.
- What were the major themes expressed in the works of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, Montaigne, and Cervantes?
- How do Shakespeare's works reflect Renaissance ideals?
- To what extent were women impacted by the Renaissance?