Part one of term paper
By the beginning of the sixteenth century, before the deaths of Michelangelo or even Leonardo da Vinci, the renaissance movement in Italy had pretty much run itself out. In northern Europe, however (in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, France, and England) humanism was just coming into its own. The northern humanists are sometimes called the ...

Part two of term paper
... true happiness was based on reason, but that man best attained the goal of happiness when he was aided by divine grace. This new force of the Renaissance in the 16th century, which came from northern Europe, focused less on painting and sculpture and more on a program of practical reform in a wide range of areas, including religion, education, and government. Yet, as More's Utopia makes clear, the humanists' interests in practical reform were in tension with the humanists' positions as members of t ...