ITALIAN NORTHERN Ideal beauty Religious and

mythology scenes

Intense realism Religious and domestic

scenes

(Early) Italian Renaissance Style, a generalized approach, bust and no hands (Alesso Baldovinetti)

Northern Renaissance Style, attention to detail, landscape in background (Jean Hey)

If the church If the church can’t protect us, can’t protect us, can we make can we make our own lives our own lives better?better?

AFTER THE PLAGUE…

DUTCH WRITER

PRAISE OF FOLLY

SATIRIZED SOCIAL EVILS (LIKE PREJUDICE & CHURCH ABUSE) TO ENCOURAGE REFORM

ENGLISH

UTOPIA

PORTRAYED THE PERFECT SOCIETY, FREE OF WAR, INJUSTICE, POVERTY, AND IGNORANCE

FRENCH

GARGANTUA

SATIRIZED EDUCATION, POLITICS & PHILOSOPHY

WE SHOULD LIVE BY INSTINCTS NOT RULES

FLORENTINE

THE PRINCE

WROTE ABOUT POLITICS & POWER

THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS

ENGLISH

HAMLET, MACBETH

DEPICTED HISTORY THROUGH POEMS & PLAYS

“TO BE OR NOT TO BE…”

GERMAN

INVENTED THE PRINTING PRESS

CREATED THE GUTENBERG BIBLE PRINTED IN LATIN

PRICE OF BOOKS DROPPED NEW IDEAS SPREAD QUICKLY BIBLE LATER PRINTED IN VERNACULAR RISE OF LITERACY PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THEIR RELIGION

BETTER PEOPLE BEGAN TO OPENLY QUESTION

THE PRACTICES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

IN GROUPS OF THREE:IDENTIFY 3 CHARACTERISTICS OF A “PERFECT SOCIETY”

IDENTIFY A SOCIAL VICE THAT PREVENTS SUCH A SOCIETY TODAY

CREATE A 3 PERSON / 2-3 MINUTE SKIT FOCUSING ON A SOCIAL VICE TO “SHAME” THE AUDIENCE INTO CHANGING THEIR BEHAVIOR.