The Renaissance Beyond Italy:

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The Renaissance Beyond Italy

• Innovations on the Italian Motif

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I. The Renaissance in Italy Characteristics

• A Spirit of Optimism
• Recovery from an unhappy condition
• The Little Ice Age, Black Death, endemic warfare
• Economic solvency the opening of the East
• Political autonomy
• The embrace of Antiquity
• Selective borrowing orators and the state
• WHY?
• Search for new models
• Italian, Urban, Cosmopolitan, non-feudal,
  culturally unified
• Christianity as Core

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• II. Humanism the Italian philosophy of life
• Renaissance humanitas
• Two main tenets
• bene beatique vivendi ars the art of living well
  and holy
• The active vs. the comtemplative
• homo faber man as maker/doer
• Implications
• Centrality/dignity of man
• Reason vs. Eloquence

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III. Propagating the spirit the studia
humanitatis

• Subjects
• Grammar
• cleaning up the texts
• Relevance to contemporary context
• Rhetoric
• History
• Moral philosophy
• Poetry
• Vs. the seven liberal arts
• Trivium Quadrivium
• Implications

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IV. Changed Realities Italy by 1500

• The rise of signorie
• Causes
• Implications
• Loss of Economic Dominance
• The move north
• Oceanic trade
• The Italian Wars
• The Italian Surrender
• Emigration
• The Counter-Reformation
• Consequences Implications

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V. The Northern Renaissance

• Definition
• Common Attributes
• Embrace and patronage of the arts/literature
• Centrality of the court
• Education and civility
• Political theory and centralization
• Adoption of Humanism
• Chaos of the Reformations

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VI. Dissemination

• Human bearers of knowledge
• Oral, manuscript, print
• Humanist influence
• Demand supply
• Founding humanist schools/universities
• Informal academies

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VI. Humanism in the North

• Curriculum tools
• The embrace of the classics
• A specific sort of inquiry the self
• Dignity of man/worth of woman
• Self-fashioning reactions thereto
• The triumph of the vernacular
• Influence of the printing press
• Influence of religion

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Christian Humanism Social Regeneration Through
Education

• Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)
• Erasmus Christian Humanism
• Educational reform
• Eloquence vs. dialectic
• Scholarship
• new editions of ancient texts
• New Testament in Greek (1516)
• Education of a Christian Prince (1516)
• The Praise of Folly (1511)
• The Phisolophia Christi
• Implications

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• Thomas More (1478-1535)
• Mores Christian Humanism
• History
• Political theory
• The role of government
• The Humanist as counselor
• Utopia (1516)
• Raphael Hathloday the island
• The attributes of no place
• Implications
• Human reason morality