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The European Renaissance was based around changes in economic and social conditions, which founded a new artistic and cultural movement. The Renaissance was broken into two different sectors, the north and the south. The Southern Renaissance, beginning in Italy, was becoming more secular. People began to focus on the present and live life according to the ways of the world. With a new pro-pagan plan, following God for eternal life was put aside for riches and other pleasures. For the first time people were beginning to live their lives for themselves. The Northern Renaissance was quite the opposite. Humanism was an ideology they followed that was meant to reform the corrupt church through teachings of old Christian ways. People began to take responsibility for themselves as well as others. A perfect example of these ideas is shown in Desiderius Erasmus' work, Praise of Folly, where he asked to return to "simple virtues." Another important piece that he wrote was the new edition of......

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