Dr. Vess's World Civilization Virtual Library

THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

Famous quotations:

On the scholastics:

And these most subtle subtleties are rendered

yet more subtle by the several methods of so

many Schoolmen, that one might sooner wind

himself out of a labyrinth than the

entanglements of the realists, nominalists,

Thomists, Albertists, Occamists, Scotists.

Not have I named all the sects, but only some

of the chief; in all which there is so much

doctrine and so much difficulty that I may

well conceive the apostles, had they been to

deal with these new kind of divines, had

needed to have prayed in aid of some other

spirit . . . And with these and a thousand

like fopperies their heads are so full

stuffed and stretched that I believe

Jupiter's brain was not near so big when,

being in labor with Pallas, he was beholding

to the midwifery of Vulcan's axe.

Erasmus, Praise of Folly

On Monastics:

Those that commonly call themselves the

religious and the monks, most false in both

titles, when both a great part of them are

farthest from religion, and no men swarm

thicker in all places than themselves . . .

some are Minors, some Minims, some Crossed;

and again, these are Benedictines, those

Bernardines; these Carmelites, those

Augustines; these Williamites, and those

Jacobines; as if they were not worth the

while to be called Christians.

Erasmus, Praise of Folly

I. Christian Humanism

II. Erasmus

A. biography

B. Works

III. Thomas More: A Man for all Seasons

A. Biography

B. Utopia

C.
The English RenaissanceExplore the art, literature, and culture of the English Renaissance

IV. Northern Art:

A. Rembrandt

i. biography

ii. self portrait

iii.Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer

iv. The Night Watch

B. The Art of Durer

i. Anu Art Gallery Look under prints for a wonderful presentation of Durer's art. C. Hieronymous Bosch

i.
Anu Art Gallery The Anu On-line Gallery also has a collection of Bosch.