In addition, Shona is a variant form of the English Jane in the Irish and Scottish languages. Shona is also a variant form of the English Joan in the Irish language.
The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps. Before 1497, Italian Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy. From the late 15th century, its ideas spread around Europe.
Paul O. Kristeller, Renaissance Thought: the classic, scholastic and humanist strains, New York 1961, is good on just what humanist and scholastic mean; F. E. and E. P. Manuel, Utopian thought in the western world, Oxford 1979 is a full discussion of utopianism; Quentin Skinner, Sir Thomas More's 'Utopia' and the language of Renaissance humanism, in Anthony Pagden, ed.,