How did the Northern Renaissance differ from the Italian Renaissance? A. The Northern Renaissance was more secular. B. The Northern Renaissance rejected classical thinking. C. The Northern Renaissance added an emphasis on the individual. D. The Northern Renaissance combined Humanism with religious thinking.
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Renaissance humanism was a revival in the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Contemporary use of the term humanism is consistent with the historical use prominent in that period, while Renaissance humanism is a retronym used to distinguish it from later humanist developments.[1] During the Renaissance period most humanists were religious, so their concern was to "purify and renew Christianity" not to do away with it. Their vision was to return ad fontes ("to the sources") to the simplicity of the New Testament, bypassing the complexities of medieval theology. Today, by contrast, the term humanism has come to signify "a worldview which denies the existence or relevance of God, or which is committed to a purely secular outlook."[2].