Topic #10 HUMANISM NORTH OF THE ALPS
Topic #10 HUMANISM NORTH OF THE ALPS
Topic #10 HUMANISM NORTH OF THE ALPS
INTRODUCTION
The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps. This
Social Humanism started by the work of the Hieronymians or Brothers of the Common Life, a
nonmonastic order founded in Holland. From the last years of the 15th century, its Renaissance spread
around Europe called the Northern Renaissance because it occurred north of the Italian Renaissance.
This period became the German, French, English, Low Countries, Polish Renaissances and in turn other
national and localized movements, each with different attributes. In the North, humanism entered into
the service of religious progress. German scholars were less brilliant and elegant, but more serious in
their purpose and more exact in their scholarship than their Italian predecessors and contemporaries.
North of the Alps attention was chiefly centered on the Old and New
Testaments. Greek and Hebrew were studied, not with the purpose of ministering to a cult of antiquity,
but to reach the fountains of the Christian system more adequately. In this way, preparation was made
for the work of the Protestant Reformation. This focus on translation was a feature of the Christian
humanists who helped to launch the new, post-scholastic era.
1. Social – to reform society from greed, selfishness and exploitation by Church and political
leaders.
TYPE OF EDUCATION
1. Social Education
3. Literacy Education
4. Democratic Education
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CONTENT TO BE STUDIED
2. Love, peace, and simplicity to be the aimed by a good Christian, and the life of Christ as
the perfect model.
AGENCIES OF EDUCATION
2. Secondary Schools
3. Universities
METHOD OF INSTRUCTION
1. Individualized instruction
3. Double Translation
4. Educational Philosophy
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FINANCE
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REFERENCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_humanism_in_Northern_Europe
https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe/Northern-humanism
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/
northern-renaissance-culture
https://www.hisour.com/renaissance-humanism-influences-33286