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Title: Chapter 17 Sections 1


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The Renaissance 1300-1500
  • Chapter 17 Sections 1 2

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Todays Goal ? Essential Question(s)
  • What were the characteristics that led to the
    emergence of the Renaissance?

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End of Middle Ages
  • Europe suffered from war plague
  • People began to question institutions religion
  • Breakdown of feudalism
  • Writers artists began to express new spirit
    experiment w/new styles

4
Beginnings of the Renaissance
  • Renaissance rebirth or revival of art learning

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1. Thriving city-states
  • Plague brought economic changes merchants began
    to pursue other interests

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Italian City-States The Five Powers
  • Naples, Papal States, Milan, Florence, Venice
  • No central govt
  • Competing city-states

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Florence
Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence
  • Center of Renaissance culture
  • One of wealthiest cities
  • Republic, but basically ruled by the Medici family

Palazzo Vecchio
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2. Merchants the Medici
  • Wealthy middle class emerged which dominated
    politics stressed individual achievement
  • Powerful banking family, the Medici

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  • Cosimo de Medici won control of Florences
    govt
  • Lorenzo de Medici (the Magnificent) came to
    power in 1469

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3. Classical heritage of Greece Rome
  • Drew inspiration from ruins of Rome
  • Studied ancient Latin Greek literature

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Study of classics led to Humanism
  • Humanism focuses on human potential
    achievements
  • Studied classics such as history, literature,
    philosophy today known as the humanities

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Classical Worldly Values
  • Humanists suggested one could enjoy life without
    offending God
  • Society was secular (worldly, not based on
    religious themes)

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Patrons of the Arts
  • Patrons financially supported artists
  • Wealthy used arts to demonstrate own importance
  • Church leaders spent money on art

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Renaissance Man
  • Known as universal man
  • Excels in many fields the classics, art,
    politics, combat
  • Baldassare Castigliones The Courtier (1528)

Castiglione
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Renaissance Woman
  • Upper-class women should know classics be
    charming
  • Inspire but not create art
  • Little role in politics

Isabella dEste
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Answer/Summary of Essential Question
  • What were the characteristics that led to the
    emergence of a Renaissance?

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Todays Goal ? You will be able to
  • Explain how the Renaissance served as the
    catapult that led to Europes progress (and its
    eventual surpassing of the East).
  • Through its literature!

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Renaissance writers change literature
  • Wrote either for self-expression or to portray
    individuality of subjects
  • Francesco Petrarch father of Renaissance
    humanism
  • Sonnets to Laura

True, we love life, not because we are used to
living, but because we are used to loving. There
is always some madness in love, but there is also
always some reason in madness.
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Renaissance writers change literature
  • Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Composed the Decameron, a series of stories that
    discuss realistic, tragic, and comic views of life

Do as we say, and not as we do.
People tend to believe the bad rather than the
good
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Christian Humanism
  • Criticized Churchs failure to inspire people to
    live Christian lives
  • Focused on reform of society
  • Promoted education (Of women too!)

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Christian Humanists Desiderius Erasmus
  • The Praise of Folly
  • Poked fun at merchants, lovers, scholars,
    priests
  • Christianity was not about rules and ceremony
  • Believed in study of the Bible

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Womens Reforms Christine de Pizan
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Christian Humanists Sir Thomas More
  • Utopia ? no place (Greek), ideal place
    (English)
  • Imaginary world with no greed, corruption or war

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The Elizabethan Age (Queen Elizabeth I)
  • William Shakespeare
  • - Great playwright in London
  • - Wrote poems plays to be performed at Globe
    Theater
  • - Inspired by the classics
  • - Works examined the soul as well as human
    nature flaws

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Gutenbergs Printing Press
  • Chinese block printing slow meticulous
  • 1440 - Johann Gutenberg of Germany invented
    printing press
  • Produced books quickly cheaply many people
    could afford copies
  • Greatly spread Renaissance ideas

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Legacy of the Renaissance
  • Changes in the arts
  • Techniques of classical Greece Rome
  • Realistic portrayal of people nature
  • Both secular religious
  • Vernacular language
  • Praised individual achievement

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  • Changes in Society
  • Info became cheap available
  • Increased desire for learning literacy
  • Published new discoveries legal proceedings
  • Humanists reformed society
  • People began to question political structures
    religious practices
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