What Was The Northern Renaissance

Renaissance means rebirth. It was a time period in Europe from the 14th century to the 17th century. The renaissance is the period when educated men and woman wanted to bring back the classical age. It started when scholars saw the art and literature of the Middle Ages. People found passion in the painting and the writing. There are three main reasons why The Renaissance took place in Italy. The first reason is because that's where ancient Rome left all its architecture and artwork in the dust. The second reason is because Italy became more urban while everywhere else was still rural because of the Crusades. The last reason is that Italy had many wealthy merchants tha just wanted to enjoy life at the time.

The Renaissance spread up north because people would start to migrate all around Europe and brought their ideas and way of life. Another reason it spread north was simply because of trading and the merchants sharing stories and news from Italy which inspired people to start as well. Although the Northern Renaissance was inspired by the Italian Renaissance the Northern Renaissance was very different in some ways. One way it was different was the art. Painting was the most popular
One of those reasons being that every Protestant church came from that era, This is very important to a lot of people and most likely happened because people started to become more educated and were able to make their own theories. However, people were still afraid of going up against the church and I would think that Martin Luther doing what he did started a ripple effect and after that tons of different Protestant denominations started popping up all over Europe and the Catholic church was losing power by the hour. Benefits of this is that it let people follow what they believe and helped lower corruption in the Catholic church, and if it weren’t for Protestants the U.S wouldn't be what is is