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AP European History215 views·Updated Jun 13, 2026Origins and Values of the Northern Renaissance
Explore the fundamental shift from Italian to Northern Humanism, focusing on Christian Humanism and the works of Erasmus and Thomas More.
The following is an excerpt from Desiderius Erasmus's 'The Praise of Folly' (1511): 'As for the theologians, perhaps it would be better to pass them over in silence... so self-confident are they that they could stay in hell with a number of their syllogisms.' Erasmus's critique in this passage is most indicative of the Northern Renaissance's tendency to...
- The following is an excerpt from Desiderius Erasmus's 'The Praise of Folly' (1511): 'As for the theologians, perhaps it would be better to pass them over in silence... so self-confident are they that they could stay in hell with a number of their syllogisms.' Erasmus's critique in this passage is most indicative of the Northern Renaissance's tendency to... — Prioritize simple piety and early Christian texts over Scholasticism.
- Thomas More’s 'Utopia' (1516) describes an imaginary island where 'no man has any property of his own, for every man is so much the owner of his own thoughts, that he is at the same time the owner of everything.' More's description primarily serves to... — Critique contemporary European social and economic corruption.
- A major difference between the Italian Humanists and the Northern Humanists was that Northern Humanists were more likely to... — Apply humanist scholarship to the reform of the Christian Church.
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