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TO WHAT EXTENT IS THE TERM “RENAISSANCE” A VALID CONCEPT FOR A DISTINICT PERIOD IN EARLY MODERN

EUROPEAN HISTORY.

What are you answering?

How do you prove your point?

What events of the Middle Ages affected the development of the Renaissance

100 Years War Black Plague Great Schism

-Church moves from Rome to Avignon in France

-1305 -1378 all popes French

-Pope Gregory XI returns Pope to Rome – Dies-

- Rome force election of Roman Pope

-Church splits

-1 pope in Rome Urban VI

-1 pope in Avignon Clement VII

1409 Council of Pisa electes new pope Alexander V

1417 Council of Constance elects new pope

Disease spread by rats

Comes from the East

Devastating effects on population

First appears in 1347 in Italy

Throughout Europe by 1353

Proximity made it spread faster

Killed within days

34% of population of Europe dies

French power and development

Lasted off and on for 117 years

Battled for control of France

Established French control of mainland Europe and removed British control

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Take sheet of paper and write a thesis for the question on it. Please be sure to not re-write the question and list you 3 points of proof.

A Rebirth of what??

The Greeks and Romans

Ancient Culture

THE RENAISSANCE COULD BE CONSIDERED A BRIDGE:

The Middle Ages

The Modern World

“By celebrating the beauty of nature and the dignity of mankind, Renaissance artists and scholars helped

shape the intellectual and cultural history of the modern world.”

WHAT IS THE RENAISSANCE??

-A 300 year period in Western Europe that marked the revival of art, literature and learning.

- a transition period between medieval and modern Europe.

-A time of creativity and change in the areas ex. Politics, culture,society and economics.

-A spiritual reawakening

- A renewed interest in the classical learning of the past.

Medieval Europe had been a fragmented feudal society with an agricultural economy

Its thought and culture dominated by the church

Renaissance Europe, especially after the 14th century was characterized by growing national consciousness and political centralization

An urban economy based on organized commerce and capitalism

With ever greater lay and secular control of thought culture and religion.

WHY ITALY??

-Center of Ancient Roman History.

-Italian cities survived the Middle Ages and the Plague

-Milan, Florence, Genoa, and Venice in the north Rome in the center and Naples in the south all make an impact.

-Centers of trade

-Powerful merchant class evolves and promotes a cultural rebirth.

Nations as we know them today did not exist City

States

What is a City State?

What are the advantages? Disadvantages?

2% - 12% (depending of the city) of the male population in these city-states actually had the right to vote.

Examples: Venice, Siena, Lucca and Florence (until the Medici family)

1. Executive Bodies – dominated by the most powerful families

2. Legislative or advisory councils

3. Special Commission

Signori – run by a single family. Example: Milan was ruled the Sforza family What does this

seem like that exists in today’s society?

Example: Venice – its constitution had a balance of political interests

The doge – an official elected for life by the Senate – executive authority (like a monarch)

The Great Council – 2,500 patricians – elected a Senate which represented nobility - No one represented the peasants who were ½ the population

Pope – the spiritual prince He was elected for life

by cardinals Ran just like any other

city-state There was a declining

role of the papacy over the city-states after the Babylonian Captivity

Why was it so necessary in this type of political environment to have a strong military?

Development of banking – How does this help to stimulate the economy?

Florence’s currency the gold florin became the standard currency in European trade.

Positives?

They were able to provide credit to

purchasers – stimulating trade.

International Trade

Negatives?

Risky – the King of England had forced

Florentine merchants to loan him money – he

defaulted when he failed during an

invasion of France in the 100 years’ War – many bankers went

into bankruptcy.

POPULO GROSSO: “fat people” – 5% of the population – elite/nobles, wealthy

merchants, and manufacturers.

MEDIOCI: middle – smaller merchants and master artisans.

POPULO MINUTO: “little people” – bulk of the urban population.

There was some social mobility – Why?

What were the social classes based on?

Center of the Southern Renaissance

Why? Why did it become the center of the Renaissance?

1. The Arno Rivier – which flowed through the port of Pisa, helped trade and commerce

(Florence conquered Pisa)

2. Medici Family – encouraged a cultural movement

3. City honored accomplishments of citizens

4. Education – many schools(civic as well as private) – university – highest literacy rate in

Europe

Wealthy Banking Family – provided stability

Bank of the Pope _ John XXIII

Banished rival clans

Manipulated electoral process

Cosimo’s Grandson – survived an assassination attempt – hours later enemies of the family were hanging upside

down from a government building – including the archbishop of Pisa

Botticelli was commissioned to paint them as they swung.

Gutenberg – development of Printing

Diffusion of a variety of

Histories

Treatises

Biographies

Autobiographies and poems

LIBRARIES

Scholasticism Humanism

The study of law, medicine and theology

To

The study of grammar, rhetoric, and metaphysics

-An intellectual movement, study of classic culture of Greece and Rome.

-focus on worldly subjects rather than religious issues.

-Use wisdom of ancients to increase the understanding of their own times

-Education should stimulate a person creativity

-Humanist do not accept texts without question but, studied them in light of their own experiences. Leonardo Da Vinci

Petrarch – Tuscan poet – copied ancient works from manuscripts

Discovered texts no one new about

Inspired successors to find and copy other classical manuscripts