Humanism and the Northern Renaissance

Humanism and the Northern Renaissance is a selection of primary source documents tracing the development of the culture, thought, politics and religion of Northern Europe from the Council of Constance to William Harvey's description of circulation of the blood.

This book will prove an excellent reader for any course on Early Modern Europe. Its wide selection of documents, covering most of Northern Europe from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century, will introduce students to the complexity of the cultures that defined the world of the Northern Renaissance and the coming of the Reformation.

Kenneth R Bartlett is Professor of History and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto. He is the author of several books. From 1996 to 1998, Professor Bartlett served as the founding director of the University of Toronto Act Centre. Margaret McGlynn received her PhD from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is Assistant Professor of History at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.